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Money on the east coast is less concerned with flashy cars. Your more likely to see their money invested quietly in their homes and families.

West coast/the South is all about your image, I saw more 6 figure cars in the poorest sections of Miami than I've seen in the richest places in New England.
What's so bad about the copy other than the "Rock Star" bit? It's pretty much the same copy-wise as the old design.
Try telling that to clients!

> And a pretty damn good one.

And thats why I want to use it, and would hate to use say, prototype, just because the clients thought Jquery was immature.
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I understand that there are tradeoffs when you choose to build on a framework. I've written many applications from scratch (without frameworks) then I've written custom frameworks and CMSs for various projects and now I'm looking at existing frameworks as a way to bring in quality code, with features that I would be implementing by hand otherwise.

I've been impressed with CodeIgniter and now I'm working with Kohana because it's still fast, fairly low level and if I want to use the higher level stuff for prototyping I can and then I can refactor down to lower levels easily for performance later on when it's necessary.

There are things that I'd consider to be frameworkish components being built into PHP. For example the filter extension is something where prior to it's inception I had this functionality built into my framework. You could say it's a framework for filtering input.

When you use frameworks that have to use all of the frameworks 'magic' you do get a performance hit. It will almost always be faster to implement your own SQL statements instead of relying on an active record library, especially with complex logic.

You need to balance what you're trying to do with what you're options are. If you're writing a personal app that only you are using and you want it out as soon as possible then some of these frameworks like Ruby on Rails or Symfony would be great. Something to get the code out so you can start using it. If you are really concerned with performance then use something like the Zend Framework where you can reimplement parts for performance and do all your queries by hand.
Real programmers understand the value of abstraction. End of discussion.
If you have a new mortgage, then somewhere between $1000-1800 is spent on interest, NOT saved, and it is GONE (well, it's a little less because of the tax advantage for mortgage interest).
Maybe, maybe not. I'd like to see stats for less-political conventions... I wouldn't be surprised to see an increase in promiscuity for any large group of people on a week-long trip away from home.

But it might be the combination of technological skills and go-getter attitude shared by young political staffers that lead them to post their desires on Craiglist...
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The majority of Drupal users I know couldn't write a line of C++ to save their lives. Many of them can't write a line of PHP, either. I'm constantly impressed with the patience of these people, but they get results.

In a world where every church, school, and small business could afford its own personal Rasmus Lerdorf, we'd all have much more efficient code that was lovingly hand-optimized for our specific applications. In the real world, hardware grows on trees, while Rasmus Lerdorf probably costs something like $400 per hour.
...also note that an enlistment contract is governed by military rather than civilian law, so you should probably go over the contract with a lawyer who knows that branch of the law.
The rest isn't so bad. It's just that the "Rock Star" part is so incredibly bad that it ruins everything else.
I'm looking forward to this, but it annoys me how many "advance copies" of this book appear to have been floating around for months, and have now been read by (apparently) everybody except me. I understand that they might want to get copies into reviewers' hands a couple of weeks before the release date, but months?
Right on! An app which never launches due to premature optimization scales infinitely.

Scalability is a problem we all dream of dealing with.
It's part of human nature to want to be like other people.

Even if it's all pretentious bullshit, horoscopes masqueraded, why can't you let the people who feel struck feel struck?

It's just like religion. You can't prove anything to be wrong, you just know, but you also let people live with the lie, because it makes them happy.

Did I get vague? I didn't mean to.
If you are lucky enough to have performance issues with a framework, just add more web hosts. Your bottleneck is most likely going to be the database. It wouldn't even matter if your framework was a fraction as fast as it is now, just make is service less requests.

Ending with a positive note - this misconception is a easy way to screen new employees.
I'm going to have nightmares about the hands in those pictures.

The first image, where you can zoom in to press the maximize/minimize/close buttons, looks a lot like the Shift technique from Microsoft Research/University of Toronto: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkoFlDArYks
I think jquery site now looks different from all other javascript frameworks...If I was a new comer, I would immediately prefer jquery over other frameworks
Just upmod everything else.
Let me tell you a little secret. I convinced a large website to switch new development into Django and then we were able to do an entire site rewrite a few months later.

The site gets a ton of concurrent users. The framework provides some caching mechanisms at multiple levels that makes handing that very easy.
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This effect happens with the Olympics, conventions, Burning Man, and pretty much any large event... I wouldn't blame politicians or political staff.
Nobody cares about the web. Take an excursion into reality and notice the web is a fraction of a percent of what's going on and is of minimal real life impact for pretty much everybody.
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Yeah, this is what I wish it looked like: http://img397.imageshack.us/my.php?image=testscreenna8.jpg
> Investors will invest in innovations when there is a feasible market for them.

That's the whole complaint. Many markets were created by force of will and R&D dollars, not simple natural progressions. That's the low hanging fruit and not very innovative.

This guy does a decent job exploring the issue of abandoning innovation:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/JF18Dj01.html

The poignant illustration is how in the 50s everybody expected robot vacuum cleaners and appliances in the next 30 years. But nobody ever even tried to build them. Instead, from the 70s through to today business leadership focused on cost reduction rather than progress. So we have no robot vacuum cleaners. This is the "innovation crisis."
Real programmers patch in code with toggle switches. In octal. With their eyes closed. On quaaludes. Up-hill, both ways.

Or maybe good developers (as opposed to real programmers) have the ability to look beyond machismo crap.

Look at us, all feeding this stupid troll.
For an early stage company like Scribd, what exactly is the rationale for funneling resources into a site redesign instead of into developing/expanding features? I mean, this design is an improvement, but the original site wasn't bad at all.
You're probably right, although currently a disproportionate number of our visitors ARE using Firefox, in part because of our toolbar. It'll be interesting to see how that trends over time...

But from a broader perspective, we want to distribute Wundrbar in as many forms as possible -- as a website, a browser extension, an embeddable widget, a mobile app, etc -- because people shouldn't be tethered to a single application or platform to get their information. That'll be a big difference between us and products like Ubiquity moving forward.
> People who get rich from technology are less likely to be B students

Yes, probably D.
"Scribd has seen the number of searches double (the number of uploads increased by 70% as well"
Superstitions.

We've built a network caching tier, but network bandwidth is expensive so we'll actually cache all the data three times in the client GUI. This will increase the complexity of implementing and testing the GUI exponentially.

Anything else would be 'too chatty'.
What else would you expect when Bill Clinton comes to town?
To me this seems a bit like a deliberate link/traffic bait.
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I'm glad to see The Weather Channel didn't receive any money even though they were a finalist. I don't think they need it as much as a small developer bootstrapping their app.
If the folks who wrote this article wanted to be taken even a little bit seriously, they should have spent at least a little time addressing the prevailing belief that eye position evolves as a trade off between depth perception and a wide field of view. I'm going to go ahead and give the researchers the benefit of the doubt and assume that their research was just misunderstood be the writers, but that just makes this article that much more pathetic.
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Wheels, should we report any spammers/headhunters to you?
Real men don't need frameworks or high level languages. Real men write 1's and 0's.

This article is absurd. Maybe some frameworks do suck. Maybe some frameworks are not the correct solution to certain problems. The whole point of frameworks is that they offer higher level abstractions and you would decide to use them the same way you might decide to use a higher level language.

Real programmers use the right tools for the job. They don't make stupid blanket statements like this one.
I only do that for spiders. Flies not so much.
I personally thought the old site was beyond bad. I think for better or worse, a well designed site does matter when attracting new customers. Sure, the service may be the same, but people will be more willing to use it if it has a functional and good looking design.
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To be more precise, whores claim that Republicans probably would do it, and journalists print it.

It may be true, but that's not a good source.

It will be very interesting to see how the RNC works out. I suspect more of the same, with a slightly higher ratio on the m4m board (for many gay Republicans, the convention could be the only serious shot they have at finding a partner who shares their political views).
Why do I have to solve this guy's advice like a puzzle?

Maybe because he blogs like he codes.
Real programmers ship.
Funny, but that would be a horrible way of downmodding.
Ones and zeroes? What a luxury!

Back in MY day we used percussive maintenance. Since computers were either analog systems with rods and wires or new-fangled vacuum tube jobbies, you could debug them with a sharp knock on the right part of the hardware. That would shake the carbonization right off the contacts and you'd be back in business.

The other day I went diving, and the dive mater was showing off his new dive computer. Instead of buttons (which are prone to leaking and hard to press with bulky gloves on), it had an inertial UI: you tapped the sides to control its functions.

Made my day to see us rediscovering the virtues of banging on stuff to make it work.
You just spelled out the problem: you still need to pay your rent. Why paying rent when you could be paying yourself? In the long run, owning the place you live is smarter.
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That's a fair point. But was it possible to create a robot vacuum in the 50s? Just because people wanted or expected something doesn't equal the means to build something. Theres so many factors at stake from the point of building a new technology and bringing it to market.

Entrepeneurs and VCs look for opportunities to build businesses and make money. There is always a need for some short-term return otherwise they will die. Being the driving force behind a completely new technology is very expensive and the first mover advantage is usually not worth it. VCs are not in the business of pioneering a new technology, they look for trends and opportunities to get a return for their investors.

If its not the VCs putting up the capital to support innovation, whos left? The government? I prefer letting the market do its work.
> [I] would hate to use say, prototype

Haha? Joke, right?
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Yes, you're right, but this value goes down year by year. While the rent costs never go down.
I'm a PHP dev, but I'm always surprised by how seldom I have to code anything besides a theme in Drupal.
How are stocks 'gambling'? Buying a stock is buying a fraction of a business. Is all business ownership gambling? A business is just a group formed to do something too complex for individuals -- are the constituent individuals also a gamble?
Yeah, and real programmers don't use weblogging software like WordPress.
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I really can't agree with the hypothesis that this guy is putting forward. Why would anyone work directly with the filesystem for storing large amounts of data in this day?
Examples from MacOSX include email, photos, or music. I have two ways of getting at this:
1) Use the program that manages the library - Mail, iPhoto or iTunes - these have very friendly interfaces for most of the common tasks that you may want to do with these document types. Of important note, they have special use cases - I want mail from this week, or from this person, or that mention a certain subject. I want photos taken on a certain date, or during a certain event, or I want to create an album which shows photos of my niece from any event. I want to organise a playlist for tonight's party, or for listening to on my iPhone, or I want to find all of my Pink Floyd albums. Application-centric access is great for this.

2) Spotlight. But what if I want to do something else. Say I want to put a copy of all my Battlestar Galactica episodes on my Media Centre. Not a problem, Spotlight will grab all of those files for me in less than a second in the Finder. Or if I don't want to make copies, I could do something a bit more geeky, and create a smart folder containing everything Battlestar Galactica, and then iterate through that folder using a script to create alias to each item. I could then share the aliases, without having to make copies of those large files.

The days of handling the filesystem details of how one stores data are over. The computer can add so much more semantic information for us these days, allowing complex queries to retrieve the data that it would be silly to do the job manually. I don't try to read raw files out of an SQL database, I use queries - a userspace filesystem these days is much the same - don't worrying about ordering the data, just worry about being able to craft the right query to retrieve it...
Wouldn't it make sense that when you have more people in the area, demand for almost everything will surge? I didn't see anything in the article that mentioned per capita rates.
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I can understand where artists are coming from. If you write a novel and everyone buys the first and last chapters you would probably feel 'wronged'.

Having said that there are SO many albums that are padded with fillers as far as the consumer is concerned. Publishers/Producers push artists into polishing/promoting one song so heavily to create a hit that any deviation from that 'hit' formula sounds like a filler. So consumers don't but the albums.

If artists want album sales they need to work on creating albums and promoting them rather then expecting consumers to hear one or two songs and shell out £15.
Oh no, 80% increase! Look out!</sarcasm> This is a pretty good example of how big numbers out of context can be presented as a trend.

In order for this stat to be meaningful at all, we need to know a few more things. First, how many of the posts claim to be from people who arrived in town for the DNC, versus those from people who are already in town looking to hook up with out-of-towners? Secondly, how many are posted by the same person? And thirdly, how many people are in town for the convention?

Let's assume 150 of the 340 posts are from unique DNC visitors. And let's assume 50K people in town. That's a 0.3% post rate. Not quite an orgy.

Beyond that, how does the stat mentioned compare to the increase in postings across all of Craigslist Denver? How does it compare to the increase in postings to Craiglist during DNCs and RNCs in year past? How about whenever there's any large convention in town?

I guess this article wouldn't have generated as many pageviews if Declan's editor at CNet titled it, "More People Get it On When More People are in the Same Locale."

Just because you can do the math in a way that yields a big number doesn't make it a trend or a scandal.
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Most things are a 'fraction of a percent of what's going on', technology or not. We have a finite attention span, so this shouldn't be surprising.

So, I have trouble following how this would relate to the impact that the web (or anything else) has on people.

I'd be interested to hear examples of why the web has 'minimal real life impact for pretty much everybody'.
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What about the 130$ Roomba is not a "robot vacuum cleaner"?

Building a working airplane had a lot more to do with the availability of light and high horse power engines than a new understanding of physics. AI is held in check not by the lack of desire it's all about having enough CPU's at enough GHz connected to enough high speed memory. For 25 billion we could build a working fusion power plant that would be online in under 10 years. Sometimes focusing on cheep is more important than you might think.
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Perhaps it would be better to have four cream-colored info circles bubble up from a puke-green background while your difficult to type url/logo zips on a diagonal!

it's all about the interface baby! ;)
So we should all abandon our frameworks entirely for C++ because we're going to be getting Yahoo levels of traffic, trees are people too, and no one's ever achieved 280 req/sec with a framework because things like caching don't exist.

And the semantic web is cool.

What the fuck? Why is anyone upvoting this link? It's completely insane.
Shockingly disgusting... I'm incredibly embarrassed, imagine trying to convince your boss that you should be using jQuery.

I'm scratching my head on what to say or how to vote your comment because, for the life of me, I just can't figure out if you're serious or not.
re: olympics, it makes for a funny read

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Bullshit. Modern frameworks like Django and Rails were extracted from real-life projects written from scratch by real programmers to let the real programmers re-use common web-development code and make it faster and more stable with time.

When you use the framework you still can dive in pure Python/Ruby or even custom C/assembly extensions to optimize your bottlenecks if you really need.
I'm shocked. Really. It's breathtakingly awful. And as I asked in the Scribd thread below, why, oh why, would you put resources into creating this abomination rather than into improving and expanding the framework itself?

edit: On second look, it would be dramatically improved if the "rock star" conceit were replaced with something more professional.
Oh, the melodrama.

Well, I love it. Sure, the "rock star" thing is a little edgy and not to everyone's taste, but with the comments here, you'd think the design were truly bad. It's not.

It's worthwhile to distinguish between designs that are not to your aesthetic and designs that are poorly executed.
Funny that you said this. I managed to convince my boss to incorporate jQuery into our app, using last week's page...
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If the jQuery people, who produce this great framework at no cost AND under an open source licence, want to put flashing yellow polka dots in a marquee tag on their site, then that's fine with me.

If this disturbs you so much, then you have two options: don't use it or fork it. They won't loose a penny by you doing so.
Is Guido a "one trick pony" too? That's pretty disparaging language for someone who came up with such a widely used programming language.

That language is not something I'm particularly enamored of, but Rasmus is a bright guy, who created something that thousands (tens, hundreds of thousands?) of people the world over use. That's not bad for "a one trick pony".

(BTW, would you call him that to his face?)
Agree dkokelly, and it also gets worse.

In your example, $5000/year interest is under the standard deduction. Unless you already have other deductions to itemize, you are getting no tax write-off for the $5000.

For instance, in 2008, the standard deduction for singles is $5450. Lets assume that you have $2000 in other itemized deductions. So, the first $3450 of your mortgage interest simply offsets the write off you would get with the standard deduction. Therefore, only $1550 would get you an additional deduction.

Now, if you're married, the standard deduction is $10900. In my situation, my mortgage interest is just barely greater than that amount.
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