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If you read what I actually wrote, instead of what you wanted to hear, you'd see that I said the profession is boring. Why would I write a book teaching people programming if I thought it was boring? Coding is awesome fun and my favorite thing, but damn the job is really super boring.
HSTS (even with the embedded list) only works if the website operator opts-in.

Just one example where your suggestion might break sites:

Let's assume a site hosts non-SSL content on www.example.com and SSL content on example.com. Now the site want's to default to SSL by changing most of the links and by automatically redirecting every non-SSL www.example.com request to a SSL secure.example.com.

For "traditional" browsers this approach would work fine: Even if non-SSL resources are linked users are redirected to the right place.

With the new Chrome approach chrome might block some of the content, but makes it clear why this was done. Users can also override this block (at least for now).

With your suggestion this page will break as the browser tries to access the SSL version at www.example.com, which might not exist, or which might not have a correct certificate.

Granted, this is just one example, and there are other cases where this approach might work fine. But the Web is just too complex to predict how such hacks will work out. I cannot think of a single such hack that did not create long term problems eventually.
I have to imagine it's a lot easier to write a program that looks for a wallet.dat on my machine and mails it somewhere than it is to follow my steps into my bank account and transfer money.
I have no real idea what he's talking about, since like most pedants, what he talks about isn't really relevant to anyone but him.
You're not sure.

Could you elaborate?
Re #2 of your point. The divide isn't along ethnic lines; it's along economic/cultural. Huge divide between rural farmers and urban yuppies. The yuppies are like the HN crowd. But historically, China goes as the peasant class goes.

Most of the time, the government is trying to appease the peasants while encouraging the yuppies. It's a tough balance.
Probably trying to make themselves look more organic by linking to your blog, for SEO purposes.
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Uh yeah, there's this thing called experience which allows me to learn a language well enough to realize it's a total load of bullshit. Haskell was exactly like that.
You're rather likely to get your money back from a compromised bank account.

Not so (by design) with a compromised bitcoin wallet.
I find that the hallmark of my writing is that people seem to find their own issues in reflected in what I say. This is a great example of that.
I definitely got a different, more inspiring read out of this post. I'd sum it up as "programming for the point of programming will eventually reach a local maximum of enjoyment; focus instead on the creative potential and possible reach of the art programming has enabled you to create." In other words, "make something people want", and from that you will really receive fulfillment.

The true, lasting satisfaction that you'll look back on 20 years from now isn't the number of programming languages you've learned, but what you've created and the impact those creations have had on those who have used them.
Wait, so you link to the wikipedia page on Narcissim, then spend 9 paragraphs pontificating on my experience and how you know all about me in a way that assumes everyone cares what you think?

Right, I'm the narcissist.
Not sure if I'm 100% accurate with this answer, but I've seen stuff like this in the past with some of my own sites and logs. My take on it is that if you visit any one of those sites, it's typically SEO linkbait garbage where the person who owns the domain in question simply feeds the user/search engine exactly what they're looking for to gain rank. Then either a crawler will follow it to map or a naive user will follow the link and you'll see it in your analytics logs later.

Pretty sure there's a little more to it, but that's my best assessment of what's going on until someone else has a better explanation.
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I just practiced a lot, really. Familiarity with a specific weapon helps in terms of knowing how it flies, how it's balanced specifically, etc but you pick that up after a few throws. Biggest piece of advice I can give is to not rush -- I have a tendency to get too "into it" and lose focus on my technique, so I had to slow myself down, take a few breaths, and think through the whole process.

If you want to get into it, I recommend two things: first, find someone who does thrown weapons and can talk you through the basics and point out mistakes in your form (SCA events are a great way to do this, and that's how I got into it), and the second is just to get a slice of a tree trunk and some weapons and start practicing regularly.

I found it to be a great way to relax and get my brain away from tech. It's one thing I miss in moving to NYC.
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Profitability has a direct impact on user experience, in that it fuels the third-party app ecosystem.

Not true. Apple making a huge profit says nothing about your ability to make a profit. XBox wasn't profitable for a long time, yet game devs have made tons of money from it. In contrast the Wii was FAR more profitable out the gate, but the attach rate is much lower than the XBox360.

So XBox360 has a bigger ecosystem, better attach rate, higher quality games -- yet was less profitable than the Wii. How can that be? Because profit != ecosystem.

Yes, "true" multitasking might be a desired feature for some people, in which case it should be weighted accordingly. But it's not anymore odd to consider a company's profitability as a decision factor.

Again, a company's profitability says nothing about the phone or the app ecosystem. The ONLY thing it says is that Apple has huge margins which it has obtained through very good deals with the carriers. End users buying phones are paying about the same price for Android or iPhone devices. They all pretty much range from $50-$250 dollars on contract.

And while Android may not have the margins that the iPhone does, do you think anyone goes into a Verizon and thinks -- what if Google goes bankrupt?
Thanks, I appreciate that you liked it.
One potential result is that you end up with... two democracies. Revolutionary divisions in Europe just ended up more permanent than the ones in China.

But I don't think population totals tell the whole story. One thing I like to quote is when a friend of mine visited China and noted that the "small towns", which still had 2-4 million people but were smaller than the big cities, still felt like small towns. They were less culturally interesting, less alive. The point is the cultural dynamic of "cosmopolitan centre" against "sleepy provincial town" exists despite multiplying the populations by 10; it's more about where the "centre of culture" is I imagine. So maybe democracy can survive scaling as well.
Yes, that's a good tactic and worth doing, but IP addresses can be spoofed.
Hi Joel - Thanks for the feedback, that's really helpful and you do make a lot of valid points, especially about travel affiliates. We definitely aren't trying to rank for "Hawaii Hotels". Those links are intended as a sitemap to help people find our review pages, many of which I believe we do have valuable, original content.

As a concrete example following the Hawaii theme, we used to rank pretty well when someone searched for "Hale Koa Hotel" (a hotel in Hawaii).

Here is our page on it:

http://www.travbuddy.com/Hale-Koa-Hotel-v189806

It's got a few detailed reviews and candid photos from active members of the site. Certainly not perfect, but I think it's helpful and that it provides a different perspective. Right now it's ranked #55 on my browser, and here is a sampling of the sites that rank above it:

#9 http://old.armymwr.com/portal/travel/recreationcenters/hale_... (a site that just links to info from the official page)

#11 http://www.frommers.com/destinations/oahu/H42763.html (A trusted brand but limited original information about the hotel and no photos)

#14 http://www.dollar.com/Locations/gen.aspx?locationId=HNLC02 (no content at all)

#15 http://www.gohawaii.com/listing/Dining/90173401_HaleKoaHotel... (no original information)

#17 http://www.wedhawaii.com/hawaii-wedding-locations/oahu/halek... (a wedding photo album site, but no specific information about the hotel)

#20 http://hotelandtravelindex.travelweekly.com/Destinations/Hon... (no original information)

#21 http://gohawaii.about.com/library/gallery/blwaikiki_hotels_4... (1 photo, nothing else)

#25 http://travel.aol.com/travel-guide/united-states/hawaii/hono... (hardly any information)

#28 http://www.maplandia.com/united-states/car-rental/honolulu-h...

...

I'm not arguing we should be #1, or even #10, but we're certainly better than many of the sites between #1 and #55, and we've seen this pattern repeat itself for most of the hotels and pages we have original and unique content for. While we certainly don't have as many hotel reviews as TripAdvisor, we do have more quality reviews than most other sites, and we have to start somewhere :)

I guess a better question would be, if we have 75,000 reviews, what is the best way of internally linking to them within our site WITHOUT looking like a link farm? We're just trying to put our best content forward, so any suggestions would be appreciated!
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For what it's worth, you can use your arm to support it if you're armored as well. If you're in chainmail/plate, the force is distributed well enough that there's no reason you can't do this, even with a double-edged weapon. That said, there are many swordfighting styles where armor hinders you significantly, and you frequently see single-edged weapons in these. It's actually really interesting to study the history of swords, their techniques, and the armor commonly used along side them -- used to have a really good book about this, but can't find it now.
Mount Gox, the leading Bitcoin exchange uses Dwolla for incoming and outgoing USD transfers. I would imagine much of their transaction volume is from this source, with $1M plus in value trading hands on the exchange on a daily basis.

Though I don't think Dwolla would come right out and say their growth is connected to the Bitcoin, as negative sentiment about Bitcoin has been the prevailing trend in the news lately.
Had the Han ethnicity not been so dominant, though, ethnic divisions would have been more prominent.
Hey, I have to call it like I see it. I find Haskell very unusable and their base philosophy just doesn't jibe with what I know of actual software development or logic.
thanks. that was about the best I could come up with too - some sort of sleezy SEO attempt. Just wanted to make sure the reason wasn't something like "Your blog's been hacked and is now part of [evil scheme]"
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My experience in China has been a little different. You certainly see divides along economic lines, but there are tremendous ethnic divides in China that aren't talked about outside the country, and often its these ethnic divides that create some of the worst economic divides.

Additionally, in recent years the population of China's cities has grown to be around half or more of the total Chinese population. It's not just farmers vs yuppies anymore, its non-local immigrants vs native locals. I saw this big time in Beijing, where a lot of the general working class were pissed because they had to work and ended up with crap for housing while the "natives" didn't work nearly as much - not because the natives were rich, but because they received state-funded stipends and discounted premium housing which immigrants to the city (from other parts of China) aren't eligible for.

I suppose you could consider my second point "economic", thought it's not really in the way most people would think of that term. It's a general side-effect of communist policies which still exist, though are far less publicized within the country.
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I am constantly worried about this. We (as software developers) are in a time where the ability to code is scarce, and very valuable. But, at some point in time so was being a carpenter, or a toolmaker, or any other skilled profession whose value over time has diminished. In 5 or 10 years, the sole ability to code will probably diminish in value, become more of a commodity, easier to learn, and maybe even become a low-end profession.

However, the ability to create a product from scratch, using programming as your toolkit, will always remain valuable. Focus on that - using programming as a means to an end of creating useful products - and you can't be marginalized by a glut of programmers.
Yes. When I got an iPad 2 a week ago, I was very surprised Facebook didn't have an app. It's amateur.
Wrong, as this very article proves.

That advice is only good if you are actually guilty (or if you get arrested).

By going to the police and cooperating, they ended up his side, and worked to figure out who the real person was.

If he has gone all lawyered up and refused to talk to them he would have essentially confirmed everything that they assumed they already knew. They would have arrested him, and only by the actual trial would the truth come out.

But that would not change the past, and he would have still spent time in jail.

If you are innocent cooperate as much as you possibly can - up until you are arrested. Once you are arrested, then, and only then, is it time to get a lawyer. Because if you are arrested then they think you are guilty and cooperating is not going to change their mind.
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From your article: "I have been programming for a very long time. So long that it is incredibly boring to me."

So, to continue rhapsodizing to each other about our inabilities, you're apparently unable to read _your_ _own_ _writing_. You may be remembering this sentence instead, which you also wrote: "Programming as a profession is only moderately interesting."
I'm surprised they didn't mention www.Kiva.org, although the model is slightly different, we've also been pretty involved in small business loans in the U.S. and the numbers continue to grow. I had the pleasure of sitting in the other day on an investment committee discussing risk of small business loans via a new partner in New Orleans and the depth of detail of the risk assessment was striking. This is perhaps why we've managed to keep overall default rates fairly low, which makes me wonder if Prosper is really just figuring out the right risk strategy this time around.
It's off to a pretty slow start. Android on phones was coming from nothing. On tablets it's different - I expected a much faster takeup with at very least a huge number of developers doing minimal tweaks and updating graphics just so they could be in the small pool of tablet apps and get more exposure by calling themselves "HD" or "Honycomb compatible". But if I understand right (and I'm not able to test this directly) there is still only a very small number of apps specialised for tablets.

I think part of the problem was the very anemic Xoom launch which simply didn't get many devices into developers hands, especially outside the US, and the quite unusable Honeycomb emulator which also turned off many devs from even trying to support Honeycomb. Google tried to fix that at Google IO but they should do much more.

It's worth noting another part of this is confusion about how Android works - there is no reason to create a "honeycomb specific app" on Android. The whole point of Android's layout and fragment infrastructure is to let you easily make an app that seamlessly caters to any number of form factors. So the idea of looking for and counting apps that are dedicated to Honeycomb is silly - it's not surprising there aren't many of those, and those that do have specific support for Honeycomb aren't necessarily labeled that way in the market like they are in iTunes (which is a problem with the market).
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But routing traffic via DNS change to different data center isn't the best approach as some ISPs cache DNS and would still send traffic to old data center.

All resolvers cache records for the TTL (or SOA minimum for negative lookups) specified by your authoritative servers.

A solution to this would be to have a round robin DNS to different data centers but that is still plagued if one data center develops a network issue.

If the clients are web browsers they will try the alternative addresses in a record set if the one they pick doesn't respond.
This is 100% correct, but getting it in writing is (almost) always better for enforceability. Also, notice that I never said anything about signatures...

* Since I mentioned that IAAL above, this comment is not legal advice.
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No, I'm referring to what you quoted:

> Programming as a profession is only moderately interesting.

Direct quote you pulled from my book and then commented on. The quote you just referenced is just what I think as my personal opinion, not a statement of fact.

So yes, you can't read, especially when you quote the material.
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I agree with what you're saying, but I don't think iPhone apps driven by game mechanics are the right answer to this problem. It doesn't necessarily go with the relaxed Joie de vivre attitude of wine tasters. I feel it translates the experience from about enjoying wine to a mindless WoW quest like experience where all you want to do is to accomplish a set of objectives to get your reward.
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Anyone else impressed that the police are actually taking this kind of thing seriously? How many stories do you read about "xx got laptop stolen and police won't do anything" - here it's hacking, and police got involved.
Friend, they have. We live in the future now.
In California, physicians are required to put in 50 hours of continuing education every two years (http://www.medbd.ca.gov/licensee/continuing_education_option...). Let's call that 25 hours/year. That's something you can accomplish by going to seminars.

By contrast, a software developer who codes recreationally for 5 hours a week, 50 weeks out of the year, is spending 250 hours per year coding outside of work. That's 10 times as much "continuing education" as the physician. If 10 hours per week, that's 20 times as much as the physician.

Of course, a good doctor probably reads medical journals in addition. But a good developer reads blogs, websites, SO, HN, etc. as well.

So does a software developer really need to spend 10-20x as much time as the physician in continuing education in order to be considered "good"? Why?

To look at this another way, a developer who wants to structure their life to match a good, passionate physician, would probably:

- Work 45-55 hours per week (and be on call for occasional emergencies)
- In the evening/weekend, spend some time reading blogs, journals, books on programming languages and software development, etc.
- Go to one week-long conference per year (e.g. WWDC)

And that's it. No github account. No contributing to open source.

Yet there are apparently a great many people on HN who would not consider the above developer to be good, who would not hire such a person, and would question their devotion to the profession.

But does a developer really need to spend 10x the time a physician does in continuing education in order to be considered good?
If you give the error we can ask the developer to fix it. It's a known bug.
FB's first iPhone app was even more horrible and it took them a really long time to release the current incarnation. It took so long that I remember pondering the opportunity to create my own version of a FB app. That was before we all wised up to the fact that no one should develop FB assets unless being paid large sums of money on a contract basis.
Thanks, that's helpful information as well. I didn't know about the 410. We used to 301 some pages, but ran into duplicate content issues where Google would continually spider old 301'd URLs (even when there were no longer links pointing to the original bad URL).
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You'll find that this part of the book gets interpreted by different people in different ways. Some folks, usually those who've invested their life in only programming, take it offensively and assume I'm insulting them. Others who are beginners or maybe having a hard time with programming find it inspiring. Still others just find it weird.

To each their own.
I disagree. There was no condescending tone, and it seemed like a genuine attempt at helping someone learn the difference between affect and effect. I would label this helpful, not pedantic.
Or the commonly misunderstood 'state of the art' which appears to mean 'amazing' but actually means 'current best practice in this craft'.
Most of my friends are indians who are programmers - none of them code outside of work. And I mean none. I'm indian - I code outside of work as I'm trying to start a company.

Indians look at programming as a great way to make good money. And a way to move up to management after that. Thats about it.
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That's always popped up in WebKit debuggers. I think everyone that's ever developed a Facebook app wastes 20 minutes learning that they can and should ignore it.