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"And one reason many people consider Java “better than Ruby” is because you cannot open base classes like String in Java?"

Do people really say this? The ability to monkeypatch classes is one of Ruby's many strengths. It would only add unnecessary complexity if there were any "special case" classes. I guess it's somewhat helped by the fact that people generally modify base classes responsibly.

Rspec is one example of how this is used to great effect:

my_object_of_any_kind.should == "pretty awesome"

MyModel.should_receive(:find).with(id).and_return(@mock_model_instance)
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That's a really good suggestion. I mostly use the tag pages to flow linkjuice throughout the site, and it seems to work pretty well. I'll think more about how I can improve my site architecture. But I was doing pretty well until Thursday.

The really interesting thing is that http://www.onedayoneinternship.com/ has seen no change in traffic. Its architecture is nearly identical, and much of the content is shared across both sites (because I built the sites for humans, not search engines). There's a decent chance that this is causing the problem, but I can't understand why ODOJ would get hit instead of ODOI. Even content that isn't partially duplicated on ODOI is getting hit, so it's either a domain level filter/penalty based on duplicate content, or it's not the issue.

Right now I'm thinking a lot about how to fix whatever Google doesn't like, but it's really hard when you can't be sure. I can't really afford to do significant testing (and you can't actually run a good experiment with a real site). For now I'm going to keep investigating, and work on building links. That's always a good time investment.
The old fixed pie fallacy will never die.
A free economy grows by what we each contribute to it.
Only a centrally controlled economy is a pie sliced up by daddy, literally leading to a fight for table scraps (if they exist).
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I realize I'm a bit biased with my comment, but frankly, I think law school is great for any entrepreneur. In fact, I attended law school specifically because I wanted to return to startup world. The analysis methods taught in law school are invaluable to life as an entrepreneur. That I now have an understanding of the law is a pretty cool bonus.
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I wonder if they could avoid the tax penalties of having a presence in every state by structuring the local delivery service as a separate entity that does local deliveries for any ebusiness that stocks their products in a given warehouse in certain cities, plugs in to their API, and pays a set of fees. In other words, turn their business inside out in a way similar to Amazon AWS.
My understanding is that the level of disclosure depends on the circumstances. For small acquisitions by large companies, it's generally difficult to find information, especially for an asset purchase. For larger acquisitions (and other transactions) by US-listed public companies, if the threshold of materiality is met--usually around 5% of the pre-transaction market value of the acquirer--there will typically be public disclosure of the consideration paid, and sometimes further documentation such as fairness opinions, etc.

That said, the individual employees are typically subject to all kinds of agreements as part of the acquisition, including NDAs.
Because for many contributors, python 3 is not usable as there are so few packages available. And on the other hand, the improvements from python 2 -> 3 are really minor.
Per http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright_policy#De...:

"As part of their retained rights, authors may revise their ACM-copyrighted work. If the new work is substantially developed, it is considered a new derivative work. The author owns the copyright in the new work and may do as she wishes with it. The author must incorporate a citation to the previous work with a notice ... If the work is a minor revision, copyright remains with ACM."
This is interesting. I just finished listening to an old episode of This American Life about this same subject.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/370/r...
(it's the prologue if you want to listen)

the story was about an experiment that was done to test the effects of these same three personality types on a working environment (although they called the flake the slacker, and the heretic was a bit different ,as the depressive)

To do this they repeatedly inserted an actor who would display one of these behaviors into a working group and study the outcome - and groups with any kind of disruptive co worker ended up doing considerably worse on their projects. Also interesting, the other members of the group took on the traits of the actor... When he was acting a jerk, the others in the group became rude not only to the jerk but to each other. When he was the slacker, everyone else started slacking more also. And when he was the depressive everyone else became more depressed.

The only time the actor did not effect the groups performance was in one team where a particularly charismatic member was able to diffuse all situations where he was being a jerk.
His face I can handle, it's making sure I've covered my bases that worries me.
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Something a little more high tech, like running MySQL on top of a file system that does synchronous replication.

You don't even need your own engineering to do better than daily mysqldumps. Run your MySQL instance on Amazon RDS and you get synchronous replication to a hot standby instance (that's not MySQL's async replication, no delay and no overhead), and the ability to take consistent snapshots from the standby server at any time. The snapshots will be incremental since they live on S3 where duplicate chunks aren't duplicated, and don't load your database server while they're taken because they're copied off the standby.
This was becoming way too Déjà vu for me. I thought I was loosing it. Thanks for the link to the previous conversation.
By the way, node is built on V8. I get the impression that Ryan is not at all interested in inventing a new language. He is interested in a language that runs quickly. Anything outside of the scope of JS run on V8 inches into the "new language" designation. Basically, any syntax you couldn't use in the browser is a no-no.

Note: this is just my impression.
NEGATIVE:

1) Jason and Mahalo are over. Their new strategy is very expensive and a multi-year road before it's a real business. It's a total rewrite, not a pivot by any means, if they do it well. No way Calacanis lasts a few more years at Mahalo (even if the board doesn't push him out).

2) Calacanis isn't really in charge at Mahalo AFAIK. The employees all report to Jason Rapp. Rapp and the board probably made the decision to layoff, though Calacanis was probably involved. He's being allowed to save face and ego. His role is more of a spokesperson than a CEO.

I think Calacanis simply can't force himself to do what it takes to make Mahalo successful because he's already rich. He's referred to Mahalo as "freeroll" meaning that even if it fails he's still rich. That kind of attitude is fine for getting things you love done, but it doesn't work when you're trying to do something you're not innately passionate about. He doesn't have the hunger (nor would almost anyone) to make Mahalo the kind of success it needs to be to justify its investment.

Paul Graham has said many times that he wouldn't start another startup because it's just too painful and he knows he couldn't stomach it now that he doesn't have the incentive he did before (to get rich).

I don't think there's anything wrong with this. It's natural human behavior to respond to incentives. I think when Calacanis finally realizes (or admits) this he'll be a much happier (if ego-bruised) guy.

POSITIVE:

Calacanis is unbelievably awesome when he's doing things he's passion about. TWiST and LAUNCH are flawless. He's the target demographic for the content himself and it shows.

He should turn LAUNCH newsletter into a head-to-head blog competitor to TechCrunch. Combined with TWiST and LAUNCH conference it really could become as influential and big as TC is.

He's got a ton of talent and energy, but I think Mahalo really drags him down. If he removed that burden he'd be able to do something truly amazing and big.

tl;dr: If you're already rich don't try to do things that you aren't genuinely passionate about, your subconscious will prevent you from doing what it takes to succeed that way. Stick to things you don't have to force yourself to do and are naturally good at.
I think you can be forgiven as it comes in around page...3000 of 4000? I'm 50% of the way through the third of three books, so enh.
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I have a demo running on my home box:

http://station.laudicina.net:3000/
Not a given. This will depend on how directed your training was and how good Lebron James was at 12 and how long he had been playing at that point. Getting good at something is like any other type of optimization, getting that final bit of performance takes an inordinate amount of work. [EDIT I took it upon myself to skim a bio. Sure Lebron had talent but he owes a lot to his coaches who took a special interest in him as a youth]

Most people can get within less than 2 seconds of Usain Bolt's best time. Going beyond that you run into a sheer cliff face. For athletes those fractions of a second is where biology starts to make a difference, the vast majority of differences in skill however, can be found in hard work.

Relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woOu_4l3lio
Does this help? http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/
Maybe, but I get the sense that the company's problems aren't primarily about productivity.
Read the article, which is about that shift. They are going to focus on how-to video.
I've gotta run. So, I can't verify that this is really a pointer... but this summary

http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Comp/comp.lang.javas...

about this video

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/video.php?v=dahl-node

mentions "He's also agains the use of co-routines because they're too hard"
Show HN: Newtiny - Forget Bookmarking and Record your whole Web History
Few days ago I got frustrated by inability to search a web page which I had visited few months ago. Bookmarking services are great, but it always happens that we forget to bookmark something or don't find something important at the moment only to realize after few days that we should've.

Even browsers' web history can go back only few weeks or months and if our system crashes or we switch to some other, it's all gone.

So, I thought why not record my whole web history, put it up in the cloud and make it easily searchable from anywhere.

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Note: Yesterday, I had put up the link on HN and few of the users raised the concerns regarding lack of a 'Privacy Policy'. Now, I've added that. I thank you everyone for a great response to the service.

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The MtGO game was constrained by remaining backwards compatible with the table-top game, overlaid with that damn fool idea about exchanging the virtual and real cards[1]. That it worked at all is basically a software engineering miracle.

For me the real challenge, when going from tabletop games to computer games, is that in a table game it is trivial to have a rule-modifying rule; in a computer this is a source of substantial complexity.

Think about it: most of the player genius in CCGs is deck construction. That is, studying the rules, studying the cards, and mentally simulating the interaction of multiple rule changes.

Most computer games don't have rule-changing rules, or very few of them due to the cost of special-case coding. They generally resemble CRUD databases with some element of chance applied.

To me the central, and interesting, challenge for a computerised CCG is to capture that rule-modifying rule capability. This might be an area where the dynamism of Lisp is perfectly suited.

[1] It reminds me in retrospect of that camera Kodak produced which took film pictures, but had a screen on the back to show you what you'd taken. That is, a self-defeating and half-hearted attempt to deal with a disruptive change to a fat, profitable industry.
If you take a picture of someone, don't stand close and your camera in wide angle. Move away and zoom﻿ in. Your picture will look more realistic. When you stand too close the wide angle makes the centre part of the image look fatter because it is a fish eye. Model photographers never stand close to a model. The same for your webcam.
Oh this is good :)
Doesn't anyone else find this post obnoxious? Well I do. Okey, you are young and maybe smarter than me, but still I would have much more respect for you if you didn't go flaunting about it.
I don't know why you can't see it, but frankly they are playing you for a fool. What they do is a classic pyramid scam, albeit with signups instead of money.
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Yeah, I would argue him leaving would be a bigger loss to Apple than Steve Jobs retiring.
When the original iPhone came out, the only way to deliver apps was via the web. Developers wanted an iPhone SDK, and that's exactly what they got in subsequent versions, which led to the App Store's success.

When Apple came out with the "no non-Objective-C" clause aka section 3.3.1 lots of people demanded that it be changed. Apple eventually relented too.

So... Apple does respond to feedback.
Intelligence may or may not have multiple facets, but the "multiple intelligences" fad proposed by Howard Gardner was basically shown to be bunk, devoid of any real scientific evidence.
What NIH did for biomedical research is the solution that needs to implemented elsewhere. The funding agencies have all the power that is needed to change the behavior of the journals and professional societies. Virtually everyone involved in academic research relies upon grants to fund their projects and the federal government is, by far, the largest supplier of grant money for research. If open access publishing is required for grant recipients then the journals will be forced to adapt or die.
Indeed, Audrey fulfills the requirements for both intuition and logic.
I keep wondering if it's worth learning J, if only to understand this thing:

quicksort=: (($:@(<#[) , (=#[) , $:@(>#[)) ({~ ?@#)) ^: (1<#)

Anyone who does any significant amount of work in J care to comment? It seems like a super-niche language, which would take more time to come up with and mentally-parse existing code than the same operations in other languages. Of course, once you're fluent, you're fluent, but it looks like Vim to the Vim'th power...
So I felt that too a bit - only because of the line "I'm pretty amazed at myself at the moment."

That said, he's obviously excited and has a right to be! I say let him enjoy it :)
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> but I can't understand why ODOJ would get hit instead of ODOI.

Wild guess: "job" is a highly competitive keyword subject to lots of scammy black hats ("work from home for $$$!!!"), while "internship" is much more clear of the scum?
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I admit the title is descriptive enough, but, well, that was pretty low in content. Twelve random quotes, many of which are just restatements of the same sane design principles many others would list.
I never said that one caused the other, only that pedantry is necessary when writing correct computer programs.

Huge bugs can come from small mistakes. The bug that tripped up Colin and ended up as a story on HN a while back was nothing more than a missing ++ in his code. Yet that tiny mistake screwed up the security of his cryptography.
The most courageous thing I've ever seen...
Yea, I'd be curious to see exactly what he's doing. I can only guess there is a heuristic which results in a lot of failed feed processing noticed on here (I know it's just a weekend project :)) that doesn't generalize well. Boilerpipe, in my experience, works very well on almost all news/blog type content. Finding the date in the first few sentences and the title are extra heuristics that can be added later.

EDIT: The date and title are in the RSS feed already! No further analysis needed.
1. We're working with the folks impacted to place them at whatever company they would like to join. I'm personally reaching out to folks who might want these fine people. They will all wind up on their feet and be great additions to the vibrant startup scene in Los Angeles.

2. Mahalo is doing amazing videos with experts, but our (text) articles were created by passionate writers who are not necessarily experts. Google want's experts, so we're doubling down and getting experts to help build curriculums and lesson plans for our videos. I'm 100% certain that will solve the problem.

3. You can think of us as a free version of Lynda.com for everything. Or a version of Kahn Academy for everything.

Imagine tens of thousands of these type of pages and videos being made a year:
http://www.mahalo.com/learn-adobe-photoshop-adjustments-pane...

We're going to teach folks every major piece of software, every recipe of note, how to change their oil and how to play any song on guitar or piano. http://www.youtube.com/howtoplayguitar2

Video is the future, and we're going to be the largest creator of educational videos this year.

It sucks that we got hit so hard, but we will come back stronger. The 95 members of the team that are still with us are more committed than ever to the mission.

Yes, it really sucked to get off stage after 47 amazing LAUNCH companies had such amazing launches on stage. I got told on my way to the after party. We struggled over these decisions all weekend with the leadership team.

At the end of the day entrepreneurship is about kicking ass and getting your ass kicked. I've been through this many times, but I would be lying if I said it didn't impact me. It does.

This is the first time I had such a big high followed by such a low, low.

OK, time to change a diaper and give a bottle. No rest for the weary.

Back to work.
I always remember a tweet that he sent out:

http://twitter.com/#!/paulg/status/29256073985

So true.
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Perhaps over a 3-year span. However, over 10-20 years, you can't beat the market. Even if you try to predict the ups and downs, the odds are pretty stacked against you. The only funds that have been able to beat the market over a non-trivial span of time have been pyramid schemes.
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That doesn't necessarily mean that they're innately smarter than you.

When I first moved out to Silicon Valley and started working at Google, I met lots of people that consistently saw things that I missed. Even ones who didn't have as much experience as I did, at least in terms of year-as-a-computer-programmer.

Now that I've been here a couple years, I've found that I'm consistently seeing things that other people are missing. Even, in some cases, the same people that consistently saw things I missed when I joined.

It hasn't been because my innate intelligence has gone up. (In fact, as measured by my performance against the Starcraft: Brood War AI, my reaction time and ability to think quickly seems to be going consistently down since high school.) Rather, I've accumulated lots more domain knowledge. And it's tacit domain knowledge, little subconscious bits that are floating around the Valley culture but that people aren't aware of on a conscious level. If you don't know to look for such domain knowledge, it seems like the person is just massively smarter than you. And if you have that domain knowledge, you usually aren't aware that you have it, and so it seems like you're massively smarter than everyone else. But if you actually look closely at the leaps of logic that intelligent people make, and then trace those solutions back to the knowledge that enables them, you can almost always find some particular fact hidden away in the back of somebody's brain that accounts for it.
"Remember, the Android Market is open, which can be great and unfortunate in different circumstances. Always read user reviews before you download; and if you have any doubts, play it safe."

This is how Apple's approach is good for developers. Their customers don't have to play it safe.
Excellent! I've been intrigued by J for a while, but I won't use languages which don't have at least one free/open-source implementation. Now I'll need to take another look at it!
Will be happy to bounce ideas with you and perhaps we can work together if it fits. I'm just starting with Rails but have tons of web dev experience in other languages. Expert in JS, decent by my own estimation at design. Email in profile if you'd like to chat.
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"our demands are not met, cease Android development in favor of other more open platforms,"

To other more open, like .... iOS, Windows mobile?? And, please don't say Symbian and Maemo..
I love it! It works for tumblr rss -- I really wish though that it you can opensource it. (Well, I would just hate it if you start having hosting problems or other problems that would cause you the need to shut down)

Im currently using "Readable Feeds" Nirmal J. Patel (http://www.nirmalpatel.com/hacks/hnrss.html) and Andrew Trusty (http://andrewtrusty.com/2009/06/29/readable-feeds/)

I like it -- but its really inconsistent!

Cheers,
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Except instead of fooling people into thinking they're going to get rich and stealing from them, it's a free game where everyone involved wins an invite!
It should be noted that this isn't technically the Minecraft creators next project, it's a project done by a different team in the studio he formed. Mojang was formed after Minecraft's success, he hired his friend Jakob (among others) and he's leading the game -- Notch is still working on Minecraft.
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Great article.

While the author might indeed be not quite right with psychological terms, he definitely has a point.

I read it, and (like many people here) found myself in it, so my next question was: okay, now what should I do with this?

The earlier discussion [1] here on HN has a link to comp.lang.lisp, containing some great advice [2].

Thanks a lot to RiderOfGiraffes for providing links to the earlier discussions.

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20140

[2]: http://coding.derkeiler.com/Archive/Lisp/comp.lang.lisp/2006...
Sounds very similar to the trading card game inside of FreeRealms (free to play, www.freerealms.com).

If you like trading card games, it's worth checking out.