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Or it was carefully crafted to raise the number of comments here...?

...did two failed searches looking for the xkcd where one guy get's 100s of comments more than other on a post because he crafted a spelling mistake. So, picture it in your mind to close the joke.
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"who had a two-week placement with Baoshang Bank in Beijing late last year"

How much can you possibly learn in two weeks?
Exactly what I was thinking. I expect the assumption is that male users are the security threat that females need to be protected from.
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Really excited about playing old NES games on a large HDTV with this technology. Or even on a small 'retina' display.
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Looks like a great product, I do have to agree the video did freak me out a bit.

I've worked for mid to small businesses in the past and this could integrate great with them, yet the missing part if you want daily users of your system you need to have time tracking functionality, and this plays in perfect with 'timeoff' as an employees time off accumulates based on hours worked at some defined rate.
Maybe my mis-understanding on how service works. Happy to learn:

+ So basically I go to airbnb
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+ This is a private residence, where they have a air-mattress

Does air-bnb do any screening of people putting up rooms or is it purely reputation based system? If the latter surely it is a ticking timebomb?

Say the worst case happens (touch wood it never does). Someone gets killed, raped, kidnapped staying at a air-bnb booked place. Any civil liablity for air-bnb? Any duty of care? Publicity fallout?
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How is that relevant to the topic at hand?
This sort of thing will likely cause more problems than it solves. Such a struct can't be moved, copied, or put in an array without potential memory corruption.

I'd suggest doing this:

typedef struct {
int a;
int b;
/* private */
int c;
int d;
} STYPE;

Sure, other programmers are free to ignore the comment and use the private fields anyway, but that suggests a bigger problem that can't be fixed with a clever pre-processor hack.
uhh, have you seen who works in building 43? do they look like they can win at social?

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Or Ireland. Note to Indians: Invest your new prosperity; don't spend it.
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Half the tools on the web shred whitespace. Being whitespace-sensitive is going to make it painful to talk about your language and hinder adoption, unless there's a more robust yet readable syntax that's trivial to convert to and from.

Also, the framework is not producing progressive enhancement markup or running js on your server. "Write this:" on http://opalang.org/ is an empty div, and http://chat.opalang.org/ has no form to submit and does nothing. Sorry, I simply couldn't use it in its current state.
I don't even have a CD burner hooked up anymore. When I install Linux these days I do it either directly from the network or with an USB stick. Yeah it's really easy nowadays.

Compiling the kernel yourself is really only useful for embedded devices and if you have hardware not supported by the stock one. Or if you are a kernel developer, of course.
Do you mean a threat to China's status as leading economic power, or a threat to China? Improvements in productivity help all of us, because we make more stuff to share around; it is not a zero sum game.
Talk about modesty...
I guess this fits the definition of a disassembler.
By 48 hours you mean six workdays?
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Good points. I had recently been juggling the idea of what it would take to successfully replace cash and plastic with a mobile app, and rollout was a huge issue.

Depth of penetration is far more important than breadth. Ten thousand users in a single city is better than a million in a thousand. In order to be viable for point of sale, you have to give corner stores and drycleaners a reason to use your service, which means that their average customer has to want to use it. Sure, you can kickstart the process with big box retail chains, something that a company the size of Google is well-placed to do, but you'll never be dominant until you own the mom and pops. Without the ubiquity of credit cards, replacement mobile payments are at best a neat feature.

The author's second point ties into the first, and is equally valid. There is no discernible reason why Google would limit itself to a single credit card provider, unless that was their only option. All this will do is hurt uptake. The same is true of limiting it to a single phone.

Google needs to learn the Wave lesson, and go big or go home. By so meekly backing Wallet, they are all but ensuring its failure. This is no Android: it doesn't fix any big problem for any major player the way Android solved the OS and marketplace problem for the handset makers. Square works great for small businesses, especially those who provide on-site service. Wallet doesn't seem to provide any solutions beyond "paper and plastic are anachronistic". They really need to identify who their early adopters are going to be and launch a concerted effort to convert them. Short of that, it's another in a long line of half-assed product rollouts from Google.
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You have never looked more than 5 seconds at Scala, right?

Option[X] is only a crock if you haven't understood it.
Stop thinking of it as a "null check", start as thinking of it as a collection which can either hold 0 or 1 elements and then you are on the right track.

null in Scala mostly exists for Java compatibility.

Re: Collections ... you haven't looked even _once_ at it. All collections return an empty collection or None, based on the operation. There are maybe 2 methods in the whole Scala standard library which return null, and both are _not_ in the collection framework.

This is so unbelievable misinformed... I can't believe it you have no problem showing this level of ignorance publicly.

"type inference system in Scala is always doing strange things behind my back" ... Example please.

"Automatic conversions" WTF?

"The trouble I see [...]" this is so much pure bullshit.
I feel like many of these compilation articles are just designed to get on the front page of HN.
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Professionall trolling. GitHub made the world a better place - assuming open-source makes the world better that is which I do - and they've done this pixel-perfectly IMO downtimes aside. What this is about is pure hate from Zed, probably jelousy that some people from his past succeeded silently building one of the greatest web companies that exists with hardly no funding while Zed himself was writing rants. Mongrel might very well require a intelligent mind, but every intelligent person knows that the only way of owning trolls are by the dog treatment: ingore the trolls, and go on building great stuff. I know average people knowing this as common sense.
I couldn't find any argument on why it will not work. It gives some reason why it can't work right now, but the service is five days old.
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...and this was not snacks for the troll, this was a note for those who don't know the history.
Is this still true for newer versions? Crap, people have been complaining about this for so long, you'd think they would have fixed it by now.

Switching to text format is not a solution. There can be good reasons to use different fonts and layouts in an email (for example to format code or diagnostic output differently from the text, or to highlight things..).
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Hey Ryan,
your product looks quite interesting and I think it is especially good that you have done no marketing yet: It shows that users are intrinsically motivated to use your product and are even willing to pay for it. You should be proud of that!
Before you make all your family and friends use the product or pay for ads, you should start off having a conversation with your existing customers.
- Try to get suggestions off them for new features
- Understand what other problems they have (it was already pointed out that HRMS or payroll systems for small businesses do a poor job with automatisation of such simple tasks) --> Your existing customers are the business experts you are looking for and they would be able to tell you whether or not your ideas are what they value
- Understand how much money/time they save by using your product and what they value about it (put it on the front page instead of the features)
In the next step you could think about paid ads, but before using them, your frontpage needs a clearer focus on people coming in from ads. This is the case as those people will likely be less educated in terms of their needs and thus your page has to display and tell them what exactly they are looking for!
Some things to consider and then measure:
- Your page talks in terms of features and not solutions. You might want to consider to change that.
- it should mirror the feedback from your customers and have a proactive tense
e.g. consider your “sign up & pricing” button → you might think about changing it to “Sign Up Now”
- look at the big screenshot → you might want to think about using this prominent space for your video as it tells much more and is much more convincing that the current screenshot.
Obviously, those are the little things in the beginning but they might have a significant impact.
Other thing to consider are pricing: It is not clear whether or not the prices are total per month or per user per month (as is usually the case with such products).
As you can see there is a lot of work in front of you, but you should be proud of yourself, as I have pointed out!
In terms of a business cofounder: It is great that you have realized that you need those skills in your team. I have worked in biz dev with quite successful start-ups and can tell you from my experience that HN is probably not the best place to find those people as it has a very technical focus (what I like about it).
Best of luck,
Alex
True, but has it not always been the case that writers have tended to view the past through a lens shaped by their contemporary mores? When I studied history (we used Books -- it was that long ago) I was taught that the development of arguments about a historical thing was part and parcel of the knowledge of that thing (rather like the article suggests). The critical evaluation of historiography must take into account the prevailing attitudes of the time as well as any other political biases. Reading around helps to elucidate these, so crucially one never relies on a single source.
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Every one of them, in my experience. I think I've waived that particular clause (or refused to sign the agreement) five times now for five different employers.

You just need to mention it when they give you the agreement to sign. By the time there's a piece of paper printed out with your name on it, they're committed. And on the other side of the table from that piece of paper is the guy who hired you. A reasonable person that can recognize a silly clause when you point it out.

Just cross out the paragraph, initial next to it, then sign and hand it back. If they want to make a big deal about it, it's them making the big deal, not you.
> Half the tools on the web shred whitespace. Being whitespace-sensitive is going to make it painful to talk about your language and hinder adoption, unless there's a more robust yet readable syntax that's trivial to convert to and from.

Interesting point. On the other hand, the source code goes through a compiler before anything happens, so none of the tools you mention would touch the source code.

> Also, the framework is not producing progressive enhancement markup or running js on your server.

No, it's not. Why should it?

> "Write this:" on http://opalang.org/ is an empty div, and http://chat.opalang.org/ has no form to submit and does nothing. Sorry, I simply couldn't use it in its current state.

Er, what? That sounds very surprising, since I'm currently using the chat. Are you using Opera Mini or are you blocking JS?
So if it doesn't work right now, what's going to make people want to go to Google six months from now when it could work?

Google's not under any pressure to ship. They should have taken the time to get it right before they pushed it out the door.
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I would be nice to survey these returnees for their satisfaction levels after 10 years or so. Theoretically speaking, given India's growth rate, you'd assume that people will grow rich faster than if they had stayed back in US. It would be interesting to see how many actually did.
> Go ahead and continue the negative talk about me in regards to licensing violation claims if you must.

If you want to gain credibility on this, I suggest you to do an extensive research from your past work, see what open source code you used, and explain for each case, with more or less verifiable material, what actions, mandatory or courteous, you have taken in order to respect software license and their author (code publication, credits, and so on).
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which in turn redirect to the #! version if you are logged. This is a mixed approach that mantain backward compatibility (and support Bing, Yahoo and other crawlers).
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Oracle OCI does this, but it's clear why: Oracle has supported some 90 platforms over its long history, many of which no longer exist, or are no longer supported, and it's not inconcievable that more will be supported in future. So instead of char* you say OraText* (for example, there are loads of these) and for that you get Oracle's guarantee that your code will compile everywhere Oracle runs.
There's a school of thought which says that unit tests should never touch a database. This has always struck me as a strange way to write tests: Mocking out a database is quite painful, and it means that you're testing an artificial system very different from what you run in practice. It's much easier just to unit test your model classes against SQLite, which is blazingly fast.

Similarly, some Rails developers try to completely isolate their models, controllers and views from each other when unit testing. A controller test, for example, won't render any views, and it will mock out the model layer. Similarly, a view test will ignore the controller, render the view manually, and mock out the model layer.

In my experience, these kinds of fully-isolated unit tests take a fair bit of work to set up, and they result in overspecified module boundaries. Plus, there's always the risk that your view objects will work fine using mocks, but fail using real model objects.

Personally, I prefer to test my Rails model objects using SQLite. And increasingly, I sharply minimize the amount of code in my controllers (and views, of course), and test it almost entirely using integration tests in a simulated browser. This makes it easy to get 100% code coverage with very little work, and it's still quite fast for a medium-sized app.

I mock web services using the 'vcr' gem, which can record a series of HTTP responses and play them back later. And of course, I mock out credit card gateways, AWS API calls, and anything else which requires a network to run. But I don't use mocks just for the sake of using mocks.
The headline posted here is way more ambiguous than the BBC article's headline. Am I right in thinking this is against HN etiquette?
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Nope! He means 48 contiguous hours :D It was originally built for the node knockout competition.
That's funny, I did the same thing. The two screws pierced all the way through the keyboard though and it didn't work anymore. :|
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And if you can do that successfully without help, then more power to you, but lots of us need things to be given explicitly to wrap our weak minds around.
Yes, i think you are wating your time, you cannot get rid of all trolls, the can change nick or whatever, or anyone can troll sometime.
I think you cannot "mark" someone as troll, everyone can be a troll.

The only way to get rid of trolls is to create a strong community based on trust.
There are many strategies in fighting trolls. Ghost bans, peer pressure or peer effort (downvotes). Make them think they are doing something.

My formula for dealing with trolls: Troll effort > Self effort.
Having such a position in Greece right now can lead to bad reputation I think (of course the state of the economy is not his fault) :) Diomidis Spinellis is an alpha geek and a great scientist. He has written great books such as Code Reading, Code Quality and he is also a FreeBSD committer.
Even if it is genuine, it's a bad idea. Someone could make an exact clone of that site, on the same server (simply make a similar Google Spreadsheet) and go fishin'. Only the hash id at the end of the URL would be different.
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He quotes the guy saying "Computers function by executing a series of instructions".

This is no longer true, and becoming less true all the time.

Using a massive amount of GPU's, and many CPU cores is no longer a simple series of instructions.

Then, the more abstract model of functional programming allows the implementation more freedom when distributing work on the many cores/GPUs, and can make use of this new architecture.

If we have even more radical changes in hardware architectures, it is almost certain that the more abstract models of programming will survive better than those tied to a particular hardware architecture (Von neumann model).
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The coffeescript version is most certainly worse, but negligibly so. It adds about 1-2 ms to half of the functions.

That being said, thats not surprising. Just like when you make a copy of a copy you only loose. You'll never gain by compiling back and forth.
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I actually like the machines/mathematics dichotomy in CS, though it often seems to come up as a one-versus-the-other holy war. I guess I'm actually okay with both of these statements, and am glad people are pushing both:

1. Computation is fundamentally a machine doing things; although of course these machines' operation is also analyzable via mathematics; and

2. Computation is fundamentally a mathematical phenomenon; although of course it is also implementable on machines.

I guess there's a philosophical debate about which is more fundamental (does mathematics 'exist' ontologically?), but pragmatically I'm okay with considering them both fundamental approaches to CS.
Oh, I see... Did you guys work for 48 hours straight? I find I get a bit paranoid at the 36 hour mark, but it gets better after that.
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