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Oh wow, he's gone well past how he was in the programming subreddit a couple years ago, last I heard from him. He had an intersting OS he'd started, then slowly started getting much more... "abrasive" and less sensical. It eventually degraded into half-ideas about how his OS was proof for god, and lots of "God says to you:" followed by what looks like text generated using some randomness and/or Markov chains or some other procedural methods.
Just because you worked harder working for yourself doesn't mean "live a life true to myself" is diametrically opposed to "I wish I didn’t work so hard"...

At the most I would say they are inversely correlated in your particular case.
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Used to be infiltrated by crime - around 1990s iirc. The Mumbai police brutally cleaned up a lot of the mob out here, and things have become a lot cleaner since.

The key driver for film would would have to be box office ticket sales, (i'm going to ignore food, product placements and the like). DVD/Video sales will be a much lower portion of it. Let me see if i can get any numbers... ah found it. -

Numbers are for 2010 and in INR bn (1 USD = 45.0 INR)

Domestic Theatrical: 62.0
Overseas Theatrical: 6.6
Home Video: 2.3
Cable & Satellite Rights: 8.3
Ancillary Revenue Streams: 4.1

I got this from a KPMG report on the Indian media industry for 2011 - http://www.kpmg.com/IN/en/IssuesAndInsights/ThoughtLeadershi...

The relevant info is on page 61
That's not exactly a fully supported toolset. There is another C# to js compiler http://projects.nikhilk.net/ScriptSharp which is AFAICT another side project.

If one of these were to stick - it would first need to be supported be a somewhat larger organization (ala apache foundation for java components, or google for GWT/Closure).
The paper has not been peer reviewed yet. Therefore the conjecture has not yet been solved.

Have we forgot the recent NP≠P paper? The author was also a highly-regarded scientist. That did not guarantee anything.
HP's ENVY line has an aluminum body (rather than plastic). I have a 14, and find it to be very well made.
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Of course these are from a selected environment - those dying with time to reflect. I imagine there is a whole other class of regret the: I wish I hadn't done that/put my <body part> in there/opened that door/said that etc. etc. moments before death.

But yes, far too many people live their lives as though they are going to get some sort of prize at the end: "Yes you suffered silently all your life about some thing you could have changed - here's a gold star". The only person measuring your life is you. The people around you will on the whole appreciate you more if you are fulfilling your self. Obviously there are those that won't - family or otherwise. You need to get rid of them - you don't get a prize for putting up with their crap either.
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It's interesting to note that people regret things they didn't do, not things they did (like mistakes they made).
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The only thing I notice is that people like and use groupon. Just this past Wednesday there was a status update in my news feed: "I ♥ Groupons!" from a recent college graduate who teaches English as a second language (ie not a hacker or startup nerd).

That's one obvious difference between Iridium and Amazon. 10 years ago, when Amazon was still losing money, I had already made purchases from them. It was the first place I checked if I wanted to buy books online. I had never heard of Iridium.

I don't think groupon will be as successful as Amazon, but having real fans among consumers is a big deal.
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2 Things I noticed right away:

1. The pictures in the slider are ugly. Over-compressed, full of artifacts, and in some cases distorted (resized incorrectly). If you're going to feature pictures, use pretty pictures.

2. The logo - you need a better one.

Cool idea. Not trying to be harsh, btw - just being blunt.
Last batch were the 4820T. Before that were 3810TZ. I don't have an online store - these are consultancy sales only.
6 dominant languages on code forges: C++, Java, Python, C, Javascript & Ruby
> why is PHP still used? What makes it preferable over alternative server-side technologies?

Years longer of being a web-focused language than other options.

Lots and lots of really good tools, all easily installable via PEAR or PECL, or on the development side.

An excellent community.

Lots of smart developers.

Lots of support from big companies (Not to mention acceptance at the enterprise level).

Continued development and progress.

Other technologies don't offer any big advantages to switching.

Despite what you might think by reading HN, PHP is still a major player, and still has a lot of momentum going forward. Using PHP for your web site is not the exception.
I think that #2 should be read more as "I wish I didn't allow work to keep me from doing what I really wanted to do".

Are you using work as a tool to do what you love? Great. Allowing it to hold you back from your passions? You have a problem.
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the 3rd slide shows the total number of commits per language on popular code hosting sites. To my eyes, there is a distinct split between 1st tier languages (C++, Java, Python, C, Javascript and Ruby) and 2nd tier languages (C#, Perl and PHP).
But don't forget that the straightforward C++ was as fast as expertly optimized java (and they mentioned you had to be essentially an expert on the subject of garbage collection internals).
Actually, playing or singing music would become ubiquitous and easy. You'd know hundreds of very singable songs. You'd hear live music almost everywhere you went in a city. Group musical activities such as concerts and dances would become very popular again. The art of writing music would probably approach its former levels over several generations (once the low point generations had passed on.)
KDE4 is relatively old compared to GNOME 3. At least, Fedora has several versions with KDE4 already. And only very fresh one with GNOME 3.
Same trouble here. My (work) workstation is a Dual Xeon, 12Gb RAM, SAS 15k disks (to replace the crap SSDs Dell shipped with the machines). We have (using CLOC) about 250K lines of C# (!). MVC3/NHibernate etc. Takes FOREVER to compile and run (3-4 minutes per change). Resharper is unusable. Crashes every 30 mins or so. Using SP1.

I get the same with Microsoft Connect as well. It's a disaster zone.

I hate working with the stack.
Deflation and Bitcoin, the last word.
I would have preferred if they had somehow integrated/replaced the system tray functionality with that of the tiling interface... as my understanding the tiles can mimic most of this functionality, if not do a little more.

I dare say most the concern I'm seeing about this so far is that they've simply not gone far enough... Unless the tiling interface is the primary mode of use, then most people simply won't use it and it'll be relegated to the list of features the OS has, that simply no one uses. Think "Windows SideShow".

Of course, this all depends on what MS are planning on doing - and I think they've made yet another PR misstep (even if it's only to developers) in that they've simply not released enough information. I can't decide if they're teasing deliberately in an attempt to drum up interest (working, but I would argue that it's more worry than interest to their target demographic) or whether they actually don't have much more than this demo and that they don't know what their long term plans are (even more worrying?)
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I'm pretty sure #2 about working harder is probably a common regret of successful people. Though it depends on what you define as successful, I assume since this is Hacker News the definition of success here is probably something along the lines of starting a successful business.
Actually in this example the non-optimized C++ still beat all other tests, including the heavily optimized ones.

This is also my experience in google code jam. Expertly optimized java/python struggles to keep up with non-optimized C++. And C++ has all the conveniences you're used to (like ints-when-value-<2^31-but-auto-change-on-overflow integers).
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Also, generally speaking you'd have to be a pretty fine assembler programmer to out-optimise a modern compiler in a meaningful way; either that, or have some knowledge that the compiler doesn't (e.g. data parallelism).

Of course, there's always the fun factor :-)
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Most people do not spend a lot of time doing what they are passionate about; e.g. even if you like programming, buckling down for a solid 5 hours to get that widget to work across all four browsers isn't particularly satisfying. Absent economic imperatives, one probably wouldn't look back on a lifetime of that (or worse) as being optimal.
I'm more inclined to trust the anecdotes of a palliative care nurse with years and years of intimate experience with the dying than your single anecdote from a single perimortem friend.

The post made plain it was based on anecdata, not research. Did you read the preamble or just skip right to the numbered list?
I will look at it this weekend. If true, the productivity of math departments everywhere will go up. I know so many that banged their heads on this one for a while. I once wasted an entire week playing with this on the Symbolics. It's horribly addicting because of it's simplicity.
so you're the other musician on HN, eh? Nice to meet you.

I know of some very small labels that have their catalogs on iTunes. Perhaps it's more a function of how long they've been around or the stature of their artists or just having connections at iTunes. I've never personally used either TuneCore or CDBaby, but my impression has always been that those are outlets for DIY artists and you wouldn't need a "label" to get you on there.
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Agreed, but all the static assets shouldn't be served by your application server but either from a completely different machine (or CDN), or at least from a reverse proxy in front of the application server. Aside of eventual port or file handle starvation, serving assets should have no effect on your application server.

So while having one file with all the assets is advantageous for the end users, it should have no or next to no influence on application server performance.
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Revenue can be a very misleading measurement of success. I agree that $4 billion in revenue is very impressive, especially considering the rate of Groupon's revenue growth, but overall losses and no profit plans any time soon, leaves me disappointed. What impresses me more is a company generating $10 million in revenue with $7 million in profit. Will Groupon eventually make money...maybe, but I'm not sure it will happen any time soon nor with their current business model. Groupon has two very valuable assets that I believe will eventually be used as the reasoning for an acquisition by Amazon or Google: 1) a large and growing list of consumers and 2) their buying habits.
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I think this also depends on age and mental state. For instance, my grandmother who was old and frail, but had a happy life. In her last few years she often mentioned that she was ready to die. She'd also talk often about the past.

If death is unexpected, and cuts through all plans and expectations without regards, it's hard to reconcile with death.

Such posts often remind me how important it is to live in the moment (and how hard to attain ;)).
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> "Adobe seem to have taken it super personally"

They took it very seriously, as well they should. It was clear that mobile, even then, was going to become so big as to start directing change on the desktop. If Flash is left out of mobile, Adobe's relevance is seriously threatened.

That said, I think the 'personal' nature of their response is just posturing. They're taking a victim stance to stir up sympathy because, well, they can. The press will respond to that story far more readily than a straight technological disagreement. And boy have they. It's confusing the issue long enough for Adobe to adapt their authoring tools to kick out competent HTML5, which will protect their revenue stream in either case.
Why can't they be opposed? All the regrets don't come from the same person.

Also, there's no rule that says they have to make sense. Regrets that people have on their death-bed are not necessarily imbued with a supernatural clarity.
I don't feel sorry for anybody who invests everything in a single platform. That is a simple recipe for quickly becoming obsolete.
Yeah, that's the kind of attitude that has allowed this situation to persist for so long. Quibble about details when the bottom line is that I don't dare a minor upgrade of even the smallest gem for fear of having to spend a day on some wild goose chase. So perhaps Rake was never responsible for any of the breakage. I misremember or misattributed: so what? It doesn't matter, because I don't trust Rake either. You want examples of other breakages? Follow Some of the mailing listst and Google groups. Stuff breaks a zillion times more often than in the Java and Python communities.
MS is effectively switching sides from developers who have invested in exclusively MS tech to those who are far less partisan, and it hurts.

Microsoft does seem to be inching away from its traditional developer base to broaden its appeal.

Lightswitch seems to be another example. I doubt that it will be as empowering for non-developers as the marketing suggests, but it should reduce the effort/expertise required in creating well-architected CRUD apps, making in-house development easier and exerting downward pressure on project costs. This will hurt some consulting shops.

But Microsoft's duty isn't to look after its loyal developers, it is to maximize shareholder value.
Please provide the code and set of data. If C++ is 100x faster than Python this might not always be the case.
To be fair with Adobe, the focus problem may be a problem with Firefox, if this is the browser you're using. https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/restore-window-f...
I'd like to say that I'm surprised by the lack of introspection and thoughtfulness that I'm reading in these comments, but instead I'm just disappointed.

Perhaps most people here are just too busy living in the hubristic stage of their life to imagine that there's anything to be gained by occasionally listening to the wisdom of those who've gone before us.
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When you poll opinions of a number of people, the opinions often turn out to be logically incompatible with each other. For example, when you define "popular" opinions as ones that are shared by at least 10% of the population, you can have a situation such as when the opinions that "the government should increase spending on A, B, C" and that "the government should reduce taxes" simultaneously meet the popularity threshold.
Hopefully this will also clue in some developers to cool projects that they can contribute to.
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Actually, if you peruse the authors other postings where he actually does include links, you will notice that his link styling is set such that if one does not have 20/10 vision & absolutely perfect color perception (and a color calibrated monitor), the links look so close to identical to the rest of the text that it is no wonder his readers do not notice the links.
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To be fair, it should be a lot less expansive to get a complex UI running for 90% of a typical user base with silverlight, provided that your business model allows you to ignore the fsf crowd. In the context of those touchy-feely applications for windows 8, it is a hysterically stupid move to force developers into the web stack, and then tell them to go fuck themselves and port the whole shit to Silverlight for WP7 devices. It is really less "cross platform", considered what platforms those devs care about.

I can think of very few reasons for this idiocy besides relations between OS and devtools devision having quietly deteriorated from post WWII style peace to nuclear war.
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Yep, my mother was perfectly happy with the way she'd lived her life but did wish she hadn't smoked for 30 years (she died of cancer).
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You can commit to something, for a time, without pushing everything else out of your brain. I spent quite some time doing iOS development, and it would certainly not be the end of the world if the entire toolchain changed tomorrow.
Most people, I imagine, don't really know what they should be regretting. For instance, it is possible one could regret not keeping up with old friends, while in reality it would have been a detriment to happiness. Humans are known to look at the past with rose colored glasses.
Seems to be a good idea. You'll have to market this a lot to agencies building mobile apps (I would think). Easy tutorial etc.
I'm glad you pointed this out. We all know how easy it is to come up with ambitious New Year resolutions and not stick to them, even though they made complete sense at the time.

People on their death beds say stuff that belongs to the realm of New Year resolutions. It sounds easy to say that you wished you didn't work so hard, but when you get the opportunity to work a bit harder and get a nice cottage close to a lake where you can spend 1 month per year, it seems like working harder for 10 years is a good trade-off.
The end of life perspective still suffers from the same problem as middle of life -- they have no way of knowing what the outcome would have been if they had done things the other way. They might be on their deathbed saying "I wish I'd worked harder and not been broke all my life." There are always going to be paths not taken.

See: Kundera, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"
It's understandable - I have a similar setup (i7 860, 8GB, Intel SSD) and VS2010 runs like a champ. I haven't installed the service pack, though, because all I hear is horror stories. The only time it bogs down for me is when I have Resharper is in "Analyze Errors in Entire Solution" mode, but that's been an ongoing issue for me since... VS2005.
So basically, the last word according to this post is, "some people think deflation is the devil, but other people think it's good. Let's ignore them both and just see what happens."
Thank you for the great advice. Especially your point about teaching is something I would not have thought of straight away.
isn't there a kind of statistical / informational bias here?

you can simplify the trade-off between work and pleasure as one where you need to work enough, earlier in life, to survive for some some unpredictable amount, later in life.

so when you're making the decision about how much to work, and how much to play, you have incomplete data - you don't know when you will die.

but when you are dying, you do have that data. with hindsight, you can decide exactly how much work was necessary. then it's easy to say "damn, i still have x dollars left that the kids will enjoy instead of me". but only with the hindsight you don't have when you're making the decision.

now you can argue that what this means is that we should shift the balance beforehand. so that less people are regretting some money in the bank, and more are dying from neglect / starvation / lack of care because they don't have money late in life. but if i had a choice, i think i'd rather have worked a little too much, than face that.

so this regret seems like a natural, predictable outcome, based on the lack of information (about the time of our own deaths) and asymmetry of outcomes that we face.

[of course, you can argue that (1) the above is a very simple model and (2) we can still adapt - for example, to try find more interesting work - while alive. i am not arguing with those points, only pointing out regret may be the optimal solution to at least one simple model]
I thought that idea came from Stross' Accelerando - probably both actually.
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Anecdotal data counterpoint:

I've had three hps in five years- one hard drive crash was the only issue, aside from a keyboard button falling off of one. (Kids have them now and they are doing fine).

Currently running two Asus'- a "business" laptop (UL50V) and an eeePC for travel. Both with Ubuntu/Mint linux. The Biz machine is nice, the eeePC is what it is. Boots fast, standby works in ubuntu, etc. Better value than an ipad for my road needs (although the ipad is nice for other things).
> This is what happens when developers believe blindly in promises,

Actually, this is what happens when you rely on software someone else controls. I once worked in a company that (after I left) made a huge investment in WebClasses, as they "were the future" of web development on Microsoft platforms. "The Future", as often happens, didn't last long.

Microsoft hasn't clearly ditched neither .NET (and .NET permeates most of Microsoft's server business) nor Silverlight and the "classic" view will still be there for when it makes sense (and it really does in a lot of scenarios). I suspect, however, "modern" apps will prefer to use the cleaner tile interface. If things like Gmail and Google Docs taught us something, is that simple interfaces are a good idea. With the onslaught of fresh desktop GUI ideas like Apple's full-screen apps, Gnome's new shell, and Canonical's Unity, Microsoft had to show something.

And that's what damns them. When a competitor, any competitor, shows something, they make themselves show something like it. Frankly, this whole tile thing has "PDC 2003" written all over it.
Also, I'm lazy. I can work less hard and be true to myself without any problem at all.