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There was in fact, too much emphasis on 'success for everyone'. That said, if you look at the rest of the arguments, I think that he begins to form a new definition of success, one that may be a better fit for far more people. In some respects this reminds me of the incredibly bad fad/decision to destroy the high-school votech department(s). We went from being able to give students something useful and more importantly something they wanted to forcing them all into the pre-college mold; with attendant disastrous results. Dropping out at all levels from that point onwards.
In my opinion, this code comments itself, even more so than a manually, written-out parser would.

Here's how I would think about it. What would a grammar for Lisp look like?

value := list | number | symbol
list := '(' value + ')'
number := [0-9]+
symbol := [A-Za-z-]+

OK, great. Now how do I look at this code?

value :: Parser Value
value =
List <$> (char8 '(' *> sepBy value (takeWhile1 isSpace_w8) <* char8 ')')
<|> Number . fst . fromJust . B.readInteger <$> takeWhile1 isDigit_w8
<|> Symbol <$> takeWhile1 (inClass "A-Za-z\\-")

Even if I don't understand the combinators, I can blank them out for now and focus on the recognizable semantic bits. I see List, Number and Symbol, ok, so my guess is that <|> does something like a | might in my grammar, and each line corresponds to a different way a value can be expressed. For list, I see some quoted '(' and ')', so I guess that 'char8' means "match this literal." In fact, I can just read all of that off, and it makes sense. Nevermind what > and < are doing, I'll ignore that for now. And so forth.

Suppose I wanted to make a superficial change, like make $ a recognized symbol in the language. That's super easy. I don't even need to look at the docs. If I want to introduce a new syntactic construct? A little harder; I'll have to go check the attoparsec docs. But you'd have to look up the docs for a library in any language, anyway.

All's not well; in particular, this code conflates the tokenizing and parsing steps (notice that I don't say anything about whitespace in my grammar, but there's some line-noise here dealing with it.) That decreases the readability a little, but you gain efficiency with it.

Maybe there's a tradeoff: the use of a library and symbolic combinators makes it harder to tell precisely how the code manages to actually do any parsing. That's true of any abstraction. But what's really great about this is that I can easily tell what the big picture of the code is. A page or two of state machine would not do that for me!
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This is the killer point. The most fun/useful cases for Color are events; which inevitably means strained networks. I think a Color is destined to become chatroulette for the bar scene.
I don't have a problem with your tone. What I suspect, though, is that based on the message you're trying to convey, you might be the target of the author.

"So from my viewpoint I am trying to increase S/N ratio by cutting down on courteousness. I can afford to do that since most of HN audience is well educated enough to know that opinions are ones own and thus know not to take things personally."

One of the points that the article is attempting to communicate is that different people need different approaches. You yourself said that most of the HN audience know not to take things personally, which implies you understand that this is not the case for other people. Cutting down on courteousness may be acceptable in HN, but it won't work for most other people.

"As long as you do and talk only what you are sure and confident of and politely abstain from what you are not. Then you have disarmed and conquered."

And this is what the article attempted to explain - just because you know what you are talking about and other don't, it doesn't mean others will willingly buy into what you're saying. It doesn't mean you have "disarmed and conquered".
First a bit of criticism - I don't like this way of presenting. 193 slides? Each with one sentence? This is borderline maddening and if this wasn't a topic I was interested in I wouldn't have made it even 30 slides in. A tl:dr would just tell you to skip to slide 160.

Not only that but the parts about Skillshare itself are so disguised that I still don't have a firm grasp of why should I go there and what can I do there besides "learn" (I can just google a cupcake recipe, why should I learn through you?).

Now about the content itself - as someone from outside of the US, I'm amazed and frightened at this phenomenon. There were similar threads on reddit with people with over 200,000$ of debt. This is irrational and borderline irresponsible to owe someone so much money. I think education should be reconsidered and a better method tried. With the internet and the wealth of information on it, I find it hard to believe we can't optimize and improve upon the current education structures.

Edit: After exploring the site, I think I really like it. I'd probably like it more if I lived in NY, where most of the classes take place :) I think this idea is great and worth expanding,

I think, since your site is fairly young, it will benefit a user voice page, since I can think of tonnes of things I'd like to see there.
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I'm surprised at all the light derision toward American Idol in this thread. I would think a show about average people putting themselves out in front of millions for a shot at something bigger would be appealing to people who hang out here.
A C++ Repl while really interesting and nice and all that--- does not an AWK make. Given the examples shown, you can do some AWKish things, but so can Perl or Lua or whatever... Tis cool though, gotta give it that!
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Well, it also probably compiles a full C++ program before running it. So performance would be terrible. I think this was made as tongue-in-cheek with all of the ruby awk stuff we've seen lately.

What I take out of this is "the unix command line tools are there, learn them and use them."
Well, these are merely tools. Just like every tool, the user must be able to judge and finetune the output, and re-adjust when needed. At the very least, using such tools you won't be hurting anyones eyes. But you possibly won't be taking any awards either.
Seems very useful post, I should read it. Thank you!
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I think I explained the answer to your question in the original post. The government has decided that in this case the money would be better spent creating jobs than going in to general funds. I agree. I'm looking for a mechanism for doing that which accomplishes the stated goal with less risk than a traditional startup. Win (for me), win (for the government), win (for society).
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If you really think about this, you may recognize the genius of Jim Meddick (of Robotman and Monty fame), in naming a compilation "Primary Crullers".
This is a marketing ploy by Intuit - in reality you aren't getting flat pricing on a significant majority of your transactions under their new plan.

For a very small portion of transactions you get a very good rate (1.7%flat) under the new pricing (if you pay the $13/month), but tiered pricing means they can charge you the non-qualified rate whenever they want. “Non-qualified” means whatever the hell they want it to, and ultimately the vast majority of your transactions/cards will fall under that pricing tier and you’ll pay 3.7% plus 22 or 37 cents on them. (non-qual rates still have what they call an authorization fee appended to them – 22 cents or 37 cents based on what plan you choose). In our experience, typically over 70% of the transactions are non-qualified. My guess is that Intuit will give you the qualified rate for debit cards and some standard cards (but these days everyone uses rewards cards).

To be a little honest, I'm shocked that TC didn't do a little more research for this article (not to mention the huge number of other errors this article is riddled with). I just wrote a blogpost explaining this in a bit more detail: http://feefighters.com/blog/intuit-drops-per-transaction-fee...
Sounds like a job for Vertica, but of course that's not cheap.
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Good suggestion. I've had two well-regarded startup attorneys look at the situation, and the acquirer has had their counsel look at this as well (we're not their only acquisition in this set of circumstances). There's no solution that does not trigger other issues.

Besides, my goal isn't to avoid the taxes, period; it's to put the money in to something that the government and I both agree is a worthwhile alternative: creating economic value through continued investment. I'm just looking for a way to do so with modest risk and return, instead of the very high risk and return of a typical startup investment.
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They're not making a very good argument against unethical copying by trying to do others' homework for them.

Now really, what kind of message does that send?!
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Not everybody does go to college; in fact, less than a third of Americans do.

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I did search and this does not appear to have been posted previously. Sorry if it does turn out to be a duplicate.

I am posting this primarily because I found it a fascinating promotional effort. Though it is not over, so you can still participate, but that is not really my reason for posting it. Participating has been valuable experience and food for thought for me. I learned a lot about what they do, used one of thier free trials for something I had no idea existed but is very relevant to my current needs, and combed through a lot more pages than I would have out of mere curiosity or even for shopping/comparison/research purposes. Altogether valuable experience which I think will help me improve my own websites, though (disclaimer): I did win something too. :)
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MySQL Connector/J[1] (the JDBC driver) is actually produced by the same company that makes the database?

[1]: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/
Just started playing with it and it looks very promising. No screenshot on the site, so here's mine:

http://i.imgur.com/t2SnU.png

Neat, my TextMate themes were automatically found by Vico.
Interactive performance? SCC compilation is about 1 sec on my old laptop with warm cache. Good enough for command line tool. Or do you mean run time performance? Run time probably faster than anything else.
I actually use apt-get to install it at first, which gives me boot scripts. At least on Debian, you can apt-get remove it and the init scripts will still be there. Meaning, I don't have to go find one on the internet. Might not work outside of debian :)
Exactly. And there has also been a position open at EA for Erlang to deal with the inherited tech:

http://erlang.2086793.n4.nabble.com/Open-Erlang-developer-po...

That link is not working anymore, but that Erlang position was still open when I left EA in December. So it was unfilled for a month shy of 2 years.
Performance would be a serious issue.
I consider myself a "Cloud" engineer and architect. I build enterprise systems hosted in Clouds. Developing in the Cloud has its own intricacies, but I'm getting off topic.

My point is that to me, "Cloud" is a software engineering term. It affects the way I think about implementing services. However, the term is being misappropriated by the media (in a similar way to "Hacker") to describe what to me appears to be just plain-old web services (or paper-hostage-holding services to quote the linked article).

This is because consumers use these services in the same way they always have. The cloud hasn't introduced some new magical way of interacting with the services. Using Dropbox as an example, it is a Cloud service because it is implemented on top of AWS. That's an internal technical issue though, of interest to the audience of HN, but not to the general public [1].

To summarise, I agree that "the Cloud" is overused, but is of interest from a technical point of view. However, the linked article is not a technical article for cloud implementers, but rather service consumers.

[1] There is the separate issue of how well the cloud service has been implemented, as the recent AWS outage has reminded us. Having a robust, secure service is of course important to the lay consumer. But services need to be robust and secure whether they are cloud based or not.
Did I offended someone? I developed my social skills around 15/16. Before that I was set to be socially awkward and I was quite shy. I put my self in situations were I could mature socially - which I did. My grades dropped because I wasn't studying all the time but I am glad of it.

I read things here like "I'm not sure when to wave", "How do I leave a conversation?" etc. Those things are natural to me now.
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If you have specific names of advisors who have dealt with this particular problem, please share them!

The usual suspects (highly regarded startup attorneys, startup CPAs) have been helpful in analyzing the situation but I haven't found any who has experience with the problem at hand, and I'd rather not be a pioneer here.

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There wasn't much point in voting me down. This thread didn't take off. It had a link to nearly the exact same question which satisfied this threads needs so I said thanks. It didn't hurt anybody.

EDIT: More cowardly downvotes.
This could be very good, I am still trying to find my perfect editor Vim's learning curve & interface means occasionally I just open up sublimeText2/TextMate.

Great to see split views are there from the start.
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I'm impressed so far. I've been looking for something like this.
I haven't used Square or the Intuit payment device, but here is a semi-relevant bit about Intuit:

I randomly tried TurboTax (owned by Intuit) this year. My friends used it. I trusted their taste, but only that it was the best of mediocre options. I was wrong. The app was amazing. One of the best apps of any kind I've ever used. The UX from the visual progress workflow to the copywriting de-stressing you out about taxes (but not getting forced-humorous), saving sessions that you time out (you're gonna time out something as long as your taxes, trust + believe)... Just everything. I know it sounds crazy, but doing my taxes was actually fun.

Anyway... I bring this up because they also own Mint, which lots of people think is pretty nice, too (but its heritage predates Intuit's purchase of it).

All I know is... I have faith in Intuit to make something truly nice. I am really rooting for Square, because I always root for disruptive upstarts, but i hope they both make slightly different variations of stuff that will help customers.
It's worse than that. Because of the economic and legal disruption caused by effectively declaring software patents null and void, the SCOTUS may very well say,"Yes, we agree that this patent is not valid, but we've been doing things this way for a very long time, and it would be too harmful to our society to rule that it is not valid."

Bowman v. Government of the United States is usually the most cited example of this sort of finding (it deals with illegality of personal income tax due to Ohio not being admitted to the USA due to what amounts to a clerical error.)
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This doesn't change the fact that searching is at least as fast as aggregating, no matter how much you cheat. Besides, how is precomputing relevant to the discussion here? By that reasoning, I can convert any algorithm to O(1) time and O(1) space.

The topic is about how search was faster than aggregation, and I'm saying that searching is faster than aggregation generally. You can parallelize all you want, it's still going to be faster to search than to aggregate.
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You can also add GitHub users to the bundles list, and it'll pull down all of their repos with "tmbundle" in the name.
This is my response to the blog post that I wrote, Mortality and Dating (http://pathdependent.com/articles/mortality-and-dating). It was oddly popular on HN, so I'm submitting the follow up. Although the situation is not very common, I think a lot of people on here make the same mistakes for different reasons.
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I agree with most of what you said. I also like the idea of Skillshare.

But, watching the slides, jumping from "you don't have to go to college" to Skillshare gave me the impression (even though the slides didn't say) that Skillshare is a substitute for a college education, which it clearly is not. Based on the current courses, it's more like a "social tradeschool". I'm not saying you are misleading, but the presentation may be.
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If you're interested in a job in the growing Research Triangle NC startup scene, there's a meetup on May 24 where software developers can meet venture funded startups who are hiring. So far there's 15 startups, but there will be others as the date gets closer. http://www.bigtop.it/ Also, consider the job board for downtown durham startups, http://is.gd/5XnLF8
Same. Not bothered to register unless I know.