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The performance of the resulting program is one of many variables. You can almost always get better performance by losing out on other variables.

Measuring just one variable in just a few anecdotes is unlikely to give you a representative measure of a language.

COBOL is a language designed in an era where syntax was thought to be the difficult part of programming.
Before the city officials left, they commended LeMessurier for his courage and candor, and expressed a desire to be kept informed as the repair work progressed. Given the urgency of the situation, that was all they could reasonably do. "It wasn't a case of 'We caught you, you skunk,'" Nusbaum says. "It started with a guy who stood up and said, 'I got a problem, I made the problem, let's fix the problem.' If you're gonna kill a guy like LeMessurier, why should anybody ever talk?"

I was waiting for this line throughout the first 2/3rds of the story. The story began almost framing LeMessurier as criminally incompetent, failing on a flourish and retiring to his private island to consider it, but he not only acted with incredible responsibility but discovered flaws in NYC's building test codes and typical practices concerning joint construction while building an effective response team to fix it.

I suppose it makes the whole thing more dramatically structured to insinuate a little bit of character transformation and reveal, but that guy deserves the kind of acclaim that was reserved until the last few paragraphs.
As with many things, I don't think the U.N. advances discussion as much as it obscures key issues.

I firmly believe we are all moving toward a transhuman time when connectivity is king. My computers and connections are a part of my brain -- or at least will be -- and governments' role in my life end where my brain begins.

But making everything in the world a "right" is totally fracked.

It concerns me that well-meaning people are trying to create more and more controls on top of rapidly-advancing technology using terms and concepts they don't fully understand. In this game of "where's humanity going?" You don't get extra credit for good intentions. I don't mean to selectively pick on the U.N. The same is true for dozens of governmental and treaty efforts around the globe.

The way to deal with these governments cutting off internet access is in the streets, which the protesters are doing.
Almost everyone is a Blub programmer, including pg who coined the term:

The interesting thing about Blub programmers is that they do not know they are Blub programmers.
How legal is content scraping?
If you use the Clight subset with the CompCert C Compiler, the answer is yes:

http://compcert.inria.fr/compcert-C.html#subset

In any other case, the answer is almost certainly no. Most commonly used C compilers are sufficiently large and complicated that the chances of avoiding a compiler bug with a sufficiently large codebase is close to zero.
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I suggest you read the book from the Heads First series "Design Patterns". It opened my mind when I read it.
I definitely agree with your sentiment. If you're working on your own personal projects/startup, most of the time you aren't gonna choose Java, but another language whether it be Python, Ruby, etc. But if you're in a corporation, you don't have the flexibility and freedom to choose what you want to work for. This association of corporate life with Java contributes to people's hatred of using Java. I bet if corporations started using Python, more and more people would hate Python as well if they had to use it on a daily basis for boring, business processes

When I actually used Java in one of my first personal projects, i found it very fun to use. But when I had to use it in my first job, my interest and enthusiasm waned.
Compcert is not without bugs either. The very blog this post references talks about some.
This was posted yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2617379
I really liked the ideia, but I missed the option of logging in with facebook/google/twitter accounts. The possibility to login on your vlog with your facebook credentials will be great to your site. I believe users do not want to create more and more logins with different sites (unless it is totally necessary.)
Here's one I've heard about: http://www.cals.cornell.edu/
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The balance sheet my not give an accurate picture of the value of a business.

Google was willing to pay $6 billion more than the book value of the business. Google aren't that stupid - I'm guessing that Groupon owns billions of dollars worth of intangible assets which are not listed on their balance sheet. (The biggest such asset is probably their email list).
The interesting point in this for me was the idea that Java, or any other development platform with an "enterprise" sticker slapped on it, will be the obvious choice for a given problem space simply because it has the sticker.

I've been in the situation several times where technology decisions are made based on brand. The Java solution is the only one evaluated "just because".
On mark! Past performance is a key indicator for future behavior ie product and service.
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I generally agree with Andrew's posts but I disagree solely with respect to Groupon. In fact there are tons of groupons, and as far as I can tell they're all going concerns with increasing revenues, email lists, and growing user bases. Here in Argentina, there are at least three others, not including the startup put together by four classmates...that was soon acquired by groupon becoming groupon.com.ar.
Ask HN: How do you back up your projects online?
I'm interested to know how people back up their code/designs. I've been using Dropbox mainly, adding the current date to the folder name (probably not the best way to do it but it works). But whenever I change something in one or a few files I have to back up the entire project directory again or replace the older file. Plus many times I actually forget what I worked on in each copy.

Do you guys know any good tools to back up stuff online where you can iterate/collaborate with others?
Thanks for the heads up, I hadn't seen anything in the article about CompCert, but on doing a search I found there are quite a few mentions of it on other articles on the blog:

http://blog.regehr.org/?s=compcert&searchsubmit=Search
This would be more interesting if you had content on there.

Why not submit this link again when you have actually written some tutorials.
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Long questions with long answers (What is a situation called in which the inflation rate is high and the economic growth rate is low? - stagflation) require more time than short questions with short answers (What herb is used in a Mojito? - mint). I know the answer to both, but I only got the points for one...
Note that the way mixins generally work in languages with first class support for them is with multiple inheritance. That is, mixins are included by reference and, in a dynamic language, changes to the mixin affect objects that have already been extended.

JavaScript can't do multiple inheritance and so you have to hack mixins by copying. This sucks when you want to e.g. extend an Enumerable mixin because.. well, you can't.
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If this is true, and if this is about his notification system... is there not a fine dose of irony in the fact that Apple hired a guy, because he made a product, that functioned only on jail broken phones, which Apple fights hard to prevent from existing.
It's not the hourly rate, it's the total cost and quality delivered. Try bidding on fixed priced projects - while you'll still likely to submit higher bids, the difference is not as big as the hourly rate - since an experienced programmer can do more in less time.

Represent yourself with class and show a portfolio of quality work. Not everyone goes for the lowest bidder, and you definitely want the clients that are looking for quality. Do you really want to work for someone who expects you to work for 12$ / hour?
Cyclone was an attempt at creating a safe dialect for C, it might be of some interest to people who have read the article:

http://cyclone.thelanguage.org:8181/
I was one of these once! Too bad the pay isn't very good...

http://www.thinkpress.com/authoritas/index.html?page=66

Seriously, getting the truth makes for occasional good press, but not a good career, and this is a problem. It's typically much more financially rewarding to be the guy selling industrial bleach to patients with Crohn's, which is why our world looks the way it does, with Groupon legally stealing and Sequoia investing in grilled cheese.
Great job on the layout. I agree that the scrolling feed on the front page lets me know immediately that it's an active community and actually makes me want to join up.
Luckily for me my parents supported my constant questioning of nearly everything. Neither were very religious, but my mom did go to church and made me go to Sunday school and church. Eventually I was thrown out of Sunday school for asking too many questions [1], and at that point laid out a pretty good argument why it was a waste of time for me to continue to go to church. That was the last time I was a part of any organized religion.

[1] "The bible says so" is simply not a good enough answer - ever. To me a much better answer is simply that a person wants something beyond themselves to believe in even though they know they will not ever prove it to be true. I may disagree with that, but I can respect a person who is honest with themselves.
Back in 2000, Amazon did not face the same type of competition Groupon faces today. There was no Facebook or Living Social, Google did not have 30 billion in the bank. Groupon is now competing against Facebook, Google and Amazon(Living Social). If you're merchant, you have more options to choose from and less reasons to go with Groupon.

1.)Merchants can be certain that Amazon and Google will have the money to pay them. Groupon on the other hand does not have any profits and is burning through all their revenue to grow.

2.)Google, Facebook and Amazon has a larger user base.

3.)Merchants can get a better deal from Groupon's competitors
as they try to lure/woo them from Groupon.

Groupon is on very shaky ground the other players are not. The fact is, in 2000 Amazon did not have a number of very profitable businesses copying them. Amazon could grow, figuratively build a moat without being attacked, Groupon has no such luxury.
That's an interesting karma (and "clout") model there, which may be of interest as an example of how social clues can promote good discussion.
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I also recommend a darker green. (#5ed179 works really well in my opinion)
combined resources of the NSA, FBI, CIA

The problem is that all these combines resources mean less outside of the US. They mean even less in an old eastern bloc country, Russia, or some random 3rd world.
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I'd suggest not forcing a signup to use the game. People just don't have the time to signup again for a game they don't even know if it's worth it.
E.g., romantic matchmaking? When looking for a mate in Podunk, it's not much help for the service also to be in Australia! It would be a rare, very 'long' man who could make good use of that service feature!
You know, you could probably just get your noprocrast setting reset if you sent an email to the right person... cough

Why would you go on a 70-day hiatus from HN, though?
But private companies are constrained by the need to turn a profit and outmaneuver their competitors. Governments aren't. To keep them from being wasteful, people have to watch them closely and make a big fuss when something is wrong, trying to get enough people to care. That's difficult, time-consuming, often demoralizing work.
when i hire freelancers i consider 10/hour quotes only for very easy jobs if not i simply delete them and pay attention to higher bids. of course a higher bid is on of the variables i look for, but a so cheap quote make me think that im payin or for a bad coder or a good one that will make my proyect with out really paying attention to it and without me spending a lot of time explaining everything once and again and again he will do a bad work, i don't need any of those situations so i simply delete those quotes
Isn't watching your thoughts a kind of meditation technique? One called mindfulness?

I've not done enough of it to be sure that it can be made to work for everyone in every situation, but it sure helps me with my day.

Catching yourself drifting in the direction you shouldn't be right now is what focus is all about, no?
Seems to me, the only things that are going to cause Apple to relent are effective competition or regulators litigating against monopolist practices.
You should use a version control system, such as Git.

http://learn.github.com/p/intro.html
Recently, after the discussion about making Wikipedia a cultural heritage site, I began to wonder if Wikipedia is the first step towards Asimov's Encyclopedia Galactica.

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia_Galactica]
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2491424
Thanks. It's unproven at scale, but so far, so good!

IMHO it's more effective to make water flow where you want, rather than to keep it from flowing where you don't. :) A little of both is necessary, but I think the first approach has more stability.
I believe it is because the complexity more or less has to exist, when you remove it from one place(in java's case the base language) you add it in another(in java's case pattern soup). Just think about how you would solve the problems patterns solve for Java in other languages. In every case that doesn't require pattern soup involves language features Java left out.
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Very fun! Although I played three times and the questions were already starting to repeat...
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> the guilt I felt for my alternate vision of the world was intense

Man, I feel you on that. I grew up in a religious household but started going, "seriously, over an apple?" when I was quite young. The responses always distilled down to my not having enough "faith."
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I have the same attitude about the Economist and the New Yorker. Indeed, it's amazing how many of the really big stories of the last few years have broken in the New Yorker, a magazine that gives its reporters months to write stories.
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I read the article and skimmed the front page of the site, but had to click away- this kind of stuff is infuriating and depressing at the same time.
The funny thing is that "I don't know" is a valid answer to many questions, in both the scientific and religious contexts.

Some things are obviously unknowable - exact impartial details of historical events that were not recorded, for example.
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Well, I don't know much about electronic paper, so I could be mistaken. I was thinking the ideal would be a physical book-like object whose pages were changeable.

It's about physically having a book in my hands. The kindle, while more efficient, just feels awkward. To me, it's the same as reading on a computer, minus the eye strain. It has no style or substance, like a book; it's just a piece of plastic/metal.
I'm using git for code, but it's not an online solution nor a back-up system.
As someone from that area, who had met people both from the inside and from the outside of the former border, I would like to tell you that the conclusions of this study are 100% correct.
Ask HN: Is there a service to sell preconfigured domains inside my app?
I want to allow my users to purchase a domain that comes preconfigured with its CNAME pointing to my server.

I'm sure I have seen one, don't remember its name.

Thanks
As they say - Science is a way to quench one's personal interests for someone else's money.

I guess it depends what's your interest in math is. If it is statistics and probability theory, then HFT startups or any finance-related companies would be the best bet. If math modeling it is, then some sort of geo-surveying/environmental companies would be the ones, or perhaps a meteorology setups. Most of these will be run by the government, so the pay won't be great. All in all, a pure mathematician is rarely needed in a commercial environment if ever. Applied math is what you are realistically looking at, but then it all depends.
How popular is the Android’s tablet? 
Read what reports and market studies are showing
Right but there's a difference between hype and experimentation with new tools and methodologies.

Cargo-culting is never a good idea. But to say that new and better techniques have not come out of (or been popularized by) new movements in software and business is simply false.

The stodginess and perhaps arrogance of academic and deeper research posts are just as obnoxious and hobbling as novelty-chasing unprincipled startup entrepreneur.

We should pick technologies because they're the right choice for the tasks we're trying to accomplish. Sometimes that requires reaching for tried and true technologies (POSIX ftw after all), but sometimes new technologies really do change the world, and we should do our best to encourage that.

Lastly, it's really just not true that all press is good press. You can gloss over occasional bad press with a much larger weight of good press, or converting a lot of bad press into good press with a small group of people (Palin's "Lamestream Media"), but bad press is just bad press.

Being known for starting flamewars w/o additional contributions to the community pretty quickly marks you as a troll.
Yes, the "gigantic enormous" Windows really can run on a tablet
This is so true. Taking the second point first ... I keep thinking that -eventually- the market will find it's equilibrium with regards to price/quality for serious projects. Budding entrepreneurs get on these sites, post something, and get screwed by one of these $5/hr people (often and likely, not every time I admit). You would think that they learn by their mistake and come back the second time with different expectations in price and quality. However, there must be an endless supply of budding "entrepreneurs" as I have not seen any leveling off yet.

I use oDesk and Elance. I have looked at, yes many, other sites but the signal to noise ration is just so low and there are only so many hours in the day. I have had much more success finding serious projects on oDesk more so than Elance. I'm curious what others have experienced. And jwwest, you are absolutely right. There are many projects posted that clearly are not intended to proceed. You can't always tell from the post alone. But after some experience, you can certainly tell from the pattern of how a post ages (in conjunction with how it is written).
Your story remembered me of this:

My parents are not religious at all, but for some reason (proximity of home and their work places mainly) I attended a religious-school for two years when I was 6 and 7. At the beginning I was constantly "punished" during religious-courses because of my questions, but the punition was to be in the library while the other kids had religious classes, so I can't disturb the class and make everyone questionning what the teacher says. Soon they didn't wait for me to ask an embarassing questions they'd just make me go to the library during religious-courses.

You could think that people at this school were rather clever to have me "punished" by being in the library. But they also sent me to the "school director class" when I was talking too much in class, and the school director class was for kids 3 years older than me, and they were doing way more interesting stuff. Even if I was not allowed to ask questions there, I often managed to get punished on purpose (it was really not difficult for me ^^) and it seems they never understood that.
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If Java is 7, then clojure is your 9, and it runs on JVM.
I would like to know about your story! Does not have to be a book, but maybe a blog post?
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Ciao a tutti, oggi torno alla serie delle riflessioni sui temi della sicurezza con un argomento che arriva direttamente dalla cronaca di questi ultimi tempi: i data breach. Come avrete certamente avuto modo di notare, in questi ultimi due o tre mesi si sono concentrati una serie di episodi di una certa gravità (alcuni molto gravi per la verità) di violazioni di servizi Web che hanno portato al furto di una mole impressionante di dati personali.
These are fairly obvious to anyone over the age of 13... (except the first one perhaps)

Be patient, be polite, help out, and don't ask ambiguous questions without enough detail.

An inclusion of where / what servers to go to for help would be more useful. I think most people get lost with that rather than etiquette.
This is a great, IRC-specific extension to esr's "How To Ask Questions the Smart Way" ( http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html ). Reading (and understanding) both of these documents as an IRC newbie will most likely make your experience much more pleasant.
If I remember correctly, Groupon tested its idea via Wordpress.

Blogging software, such as Wordpress, is pretty ubiquitious.

Scaling a daily deals site might be difficult, but I don't think starting one is.

On the other hand, starting a search or energy company would be different.
I bet that 100 years from now, in the post-Singularity wasteland with pockets of humans surviving here and there, and with unimaginably advanced hardware available that responds to your thoughts at will, Microsoft if it survives is going to try to port Windows with all its bugs to the latest thought-controlled quantum hypercomputer, their marketing message being that "it turns blue when you're sad -- it's still Windows!"
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I find that finding which room to go is rather trivial problem. I find dealing with people in irc; would be the main problem when first trying it out and getting to learn the ropes with technical people online. Those things may be fairly obvious but they happen everyday; in every room.
See pg's new post about an implementation of HN search:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2619736
Beat me to it. :-)
That was my goal. glad you enjoyed it.
I couldn't watch the video on Youtube because I'm in Belgium, apparently. Are there any alternative sources?
"...this video is blocked in your country..."
I definitely sympathize. My Sunday school teachers were a bit anti-intellectual and could rarely answer the questions a smart kid might have. It didn't take me long to realize that the teachers weren't the people best qualified to teach kids on religious subjects. They were just the people who were willing to babysit for an hour every Sunday.

Though I probably wouldn't have reached this realization if my parents didn't have some fairly intellectual theology/religious books on the shelves that I could pick up and read.
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I have given up on oDesk it seems to be impossible now to find anything that pays above $50.

I have shifted my attention to Elance. Quality work,good pay, and more employees wanting Americans. Just insanely competitive.

I got my first bid accepted after shelling out an extra $10 after using my first 10 connects. I made the money back but even with a good rating it is still difficult.
This should cut down on duplicate submissions. That is, IF people remember to use it.
I just put in $55; this is a really slick idea.