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Hey Coryl, I'm enjoying this discussion between you two and I think you both make excellent points and I'm learning from the discussion. But this out of bounds -

> has to be explicitly stated by you shows (to me) a form of malice, spite, arrogance, and a complex of superiority.

You really ought not personally insult the guy you're discussing with... it doesn't help the discussion at all. Really uncalled for, haberman is disagreeing with you but he's being civil. If you don't like his points, argue without the insults.
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Yeah - that's similar to what I had in mind, I don't know if making it bigger would show the effects of weather more.

What those do show is:

- The huge variations in day length due to latitude

- How those of us in higher latitudes spend in the gloaming - my favourite time of day
You mentioned visual clutter, and then your first bullet point was about too much spacing. Clutter--according to the OS X dictionary you cited earlier--refers to a jumble or tangle of items, implying that they are close together. That's the discrepancy he was referring to.

His posts were completely non-hostile, so aren't you overreacting?
Great points. Management decisions should be supported by objective data as much as possible but, management can't always get the data it needs to make those decisions and there will always be some uncertainty/subjectivity that requires extra digging to be resolved (and my favorite managers always dig extra hard for the data). My point is just that many startups don't come from virtual team backgrounds and as such won't even begin to know how to fill in the gaps when there isn't perfect information in managing remote teams. This is particularly exacerbated if there is already a local team with a specific communication culture built that clashes with the way the remote team prefers to communicate and neither party recognizes the incongruity.
My _id is different from ObjectID. It does begin with a timestamp but one that has 2010 as epoch. It's also followed by a kind of user ID and a piece of random identifier that appears elsewhere in the document.
In Europe it's a lot easier to immigrate in general. Especially as an EU citizen. And if your country is also a member of the Schengen space, you can just move around using only your ID.

My uncle immigrated in Spain for instance; entered and worked illegally at first (since a Schengen visa was required of him, and he could find illegal work more easilly anyway), but forward 15 years later, and now he has full citizenship and a perfectly legal driver's license. And he has had a legal job for 10 years already.

For me I have the following difficulty - you can't obtain a visa for work in the US if you don't have a college degree in the domain you want to work in. And then it's extremely difficult to be a startup founder that way, since with that kind of visa you can only work as an employee and have a sponsor. Unless you can obtain a Visa at the lottery or for extraordinary merits.

This is absolutely insane - since I just got out and bought a college degree in CS, waited 3 years to get it of course, but I got it, and now I can get an US Visa.

But then again, why should I? Why wouldn't I go work in Zurich or in London or in Berlin, or just stay where I am, since obviously the US doesn't want me?
It is. I was using a totally random string key, not the default ObjectID.
I would have to do that manually. Unless you know of an automatic solution that doesn't involve paying tons of money on commercial licenses?
Yeah its more of a starting point than a solution. The overall arrangement of the cipher text is pretty convincing. The words spotted not so much.

I wouldn't discount the Dan Brown approach though...it seems well suited for solving a puzzle by a guy who routinely misspells words & has a tenuous grasp on reality at best.
>Most of us IT folks are pretty much at the top in terms of income.

In the top of our economies. But take your high paying Indian position and then plan a vacation to Switzerland. You're not going to feel like the top anymore. I, however, could have a mansion in India easy enough (and know a lot of Indians doing exactly that; working in Switzerland and paying for wonderful mansions in India).
Review my startup & my new website?
I am a startup business and got my new website up and running today.

My business (ClickDesk) is the first social live chat service to integrate social communications and voice support into it. The service is 100% cloud based and live-agents chat directly from their IM account (eg: GTalk/Skype) on desktop, laptop & mobile.

I am particularly looking for feedback on my Browser phone functionality (voice support) & UI themes...
I think there was a bit of creative journalism in one of the articles.

Yes, we recently stopped paying individual performance bonuses. Instead, we gave everyone a once off salary bump. We prefer to just pay top market salaries rather than variable personal bonuses. (although we continued to pay the organisational bonus and we've recently given every staff member stock options)

It's not an annual flat 8% rise

More here: http://blogs.atlassian.com/news/2010/08/atlassians_big_exper...
Did you just compare an unoriginal ripoff of five-year-old Flash games to a deservedly legendary classic?
I guess I'm looking at this situation as if he were someone whose parents faked his admission to MIT, somehow the papers slipped to the right places and he began enrolling, midway through college he learned about the faking, and then he still kept going, graduated magna/summa cum laude ("Pulitzer" - and yes I know MIT doesn't have latin recognitions), and now the truth is out. Even though he did not began college in a criminal way, in my opinion he ended it as such and all his super achievements don't justify keeping the facade.

Of course all that fails if, like you say, there would be no "next in line" because there is no "line", but somehow I think there is. I tend to think there are a finite number of schools, colleges, internships, and jobs. But that seems to be the core of our argument and I may need to change the way I view opportunities in nations.
A [somewhat exaggerated] summary: "there are so many security holes in web browsing already, why do you begrudge us a few more?". OK, I admit there is a kind of madhouse logic to this which I can't refute. There is already a flood of patches that I need to apply about every 5 minutes to something or other, and that's just the vulns that got identified and reported.

I certainly agree that nobody will be able to stop this - developers want the API, users want the games.

WebGL is currently turned on in Chrome 12, and the only way to turn it off is to add -disable-webgl to the command line. Which essentially means you can assume it's on everywhere, including on the computer of your bank's manager. This is what people miss when they say you can turn it off for yourself.

The security aspects of WebGL seem like they were banged out in about 10 minutes. I encourage all to read the Khronos paper on security (http://www.khronos.org/webgl/security/), and compare the level of presentation to anything which gets accepted at a security conference.

I don't know why I keep returning to this. I certainly don't think that WebGL is the end of the world. There will be some more holes and some more patches. I just think this is another case of the web development world shirking its responsibility to bring real security to browsing (what happened to all those projects which used virtualization to isolate sessions, which I first heard about 4 years ago?), and instead piling on more features without thinking the implications through.
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I like this poll but it might be biased due to the fact that 2 or more employees from the same company might take it.
While it's true that some other DBs have better code for working around slow disks, does it really help all that much? In my case the random primary key was causing every single operation to result in a seek to a random location on disk. I really doubt other DBs could have helped me no matter how good their code is. At best they postpone the core problem.

What tools do you use to measure the working set in PostgreSQL and other databases?
It goes beyond professional licensing - my father is an IT consultant (a damn good one at that) that started out in Canada after immigrating, building security cameras in an assembly line.

He had years of international consulting experience in Asia, flying all over the world. Nobody would acknowledge either his education (masters degree) nor his >10-year experience in the field.

His path was: factory line worker -> IT infrastructure wiring guy -> front-line customer service phone jockey -> senior customer service phone jockey -> DBA -> consultant. So at least he's back where he belongs. Honestly, I think it was years wasted.

The Canadian government's definition of "valuable international education/experience" is rarely ever acknowledged by private industry - licensed/regulated field or otherwise.
I actually like the "hold yourself back" idea. The "tortoise and the hare" comes to mind here.
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The overall arrangement of the cipher text is pretty convincing.

Really? I don't get that bit. Can you explain it to me?

has a tenuous grasp on reality at best.

In terms of cryptography in the late 1960s that could be done with paper and pencil I'd say that The Zodiac had a very good idea of what he was doing. In the Zodiac 408 cipher he carefully disguised the frequent letters with multiple symbols to make it hard but not impossible to break (see my blog posting above). His misspellings could easily be deliberate (as they mess with the letter frequencies). I wouldn't write him off, even if he did kill a large number of people.
>If you aren't doing the consulting how do you find two chumps willing to fund your company for you?

Most professionals in the world are "chumps" willing to fund X for other people. I'm on a project right now that's going to save my org $20 million a year. Do I see any of that? Nope, just my normal salary, which is quite good IMO. If you pay your "chumps" quite good they'll be perfectly happy to consult while you use your money to do other things. After all, they are able to earn consulting thanks to your connections.

If they build up enough connections and have the same courage they might do the same thing but so be it. Most people won't. I know someone making less than I am who works as a high end consultant billed out at $500/hr. I've pointed out how he's being exploited several times but he likes the stability of an employer.
You can write "lispy" code with CoffeeScript, if you're feeling looney:

(afraid (very (are (we))))

is valid syntax.
Or, if the Github team, having first created a GUI for Mac, which they use themselves and can more easily test, were to then create a Windows version and charge $0 for it, they could convince a lot of Windows Subversion users to switch to Git and Github, paying monthly for private repos.

Which looks like where they're going with this.
I don't see what's changed in 10.7 regarding windows. Can you point the app that had multiple windows, but moved to something else?

Other than the APIs for fullscreen support, there's little that can be said without violating NDA. Other Apple applications have gone single-window over the years; Logic merged its windows two major versions ago, and Final Cut Pro X just did the same.

Steve Jobs has always preferred single windows. Before OS X 1.0, the toolbar button was instead a toggle for single window mode.
This is possible now [1]. FSA will (hopefully) make it significantly more efficient.

[1] http://www.idav.ucdavis.edu/publications/print_pub?pub_id=10...
It wasn't a true single window mode; there were still secondary windows, and Interface Builder was not integrated.
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Ignore w3schools. Don't get hooked/dependant on jquery/coffeescript/objective-j but do know how to use them. Get into the habit of things like progressive enhancement.
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This whole thing makes me feel like I'm watching Cryptonomicon: The Movie.
But it's not typical, so what's your point?
"Hopefully" indeed -- I had a lot of hope for ECMAScript 4 back in 2007, and look how that turned out.

As with most "next gen" web browser technology (for whatever your 'current gen' may be, back to Netscape 2.0), until I see it actually shipping in a majority of browsers I will remain skeptical.
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"foreign born citizens that worked hard through the system to get citizenship have a little to be annoyed about"

I'm from this group and I am annoyed. Yes, it sucks that being born on the right side of an imaginary line determines many of your future opportunities. Agreed. Let's change that. Agreed.

But meanwhile, there can't be anarchy. Just because you think it's unfair, you (or your parents) can't go ahead and break the rules, fake to be citizen of a place that you are not, and after enough water has passed under the bridge, come out and expect for everything to be the same, just because you lived your life in a commendable way after that.

I think it's unfair and insulting that he got the opportunity to attend schools in the US, get to do internships in the US, while thousands of children from the Philippines were not smuggled across the border and have to cope with life without such opportunities. Who knows all the great people they might have become if they had started a life in the US.
That alphabet was actually used by humans long before it was used by the Ultima games: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic_alphabet
Could somebody translate - is living in cities more stressful or less stressful? I suppose more stressful, but I can't discern it from the writing here.

Or is it just stressful in a different way than living in the countryside?
Apparently one doesn't need to be awake, sane or sober to become a "programmer".

Fixed. I've seen plenty of crap programming everywhere, no need to pick on enterprise programmers.
no, I guess many people started to understand this behavior just now. (something you don't meet when all you do is javascript and ruby/python)
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Ask HN:KickStarter equivalent in india?
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Apparel is hard. [1]

Beside the normal web startup challenges, a key challenge will be the technical product development and production of the apparel designs.

There's huge amount of work that happens between the design sketch and finished product. The design has to be turned into patterns and pieces, the fit has to be just right, it has to be produceable, etc. Then you have to work with (usually multiple) companies to produce the pieces. Lots of work. As with anything short production runs are more expensive too.

[1] I've worked with quite a few apparel and footwear brands and have seen this first hand.
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Or just stay in Canada. It's a nice place to live. It's very similar to living in the US. As a programmer you could easily find a job.
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That's an awesome interface!
How should one learn real world C and C++?
I recently got my bachelor's degree and I'm feeling like I really need to get to do something useful in the real world.

Reading books doesn't help. Sure, you learn the syntax, how the language works and that's about it. There might be some useful tips in the book, but that's not how I seem to learn. This is why I consider myself an absolute beginner.

I need something which actually helps me learn how to write useful code. I really want to start with C as I will need both C and C++ in the future.

What methods should one use to move from writing "toy projects" to real world coding? Which projects would be recommended to start with?

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!
this one is an eye opener and very humble too http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2186595/c-is-there-a-diff...

edit: also thanks for making me spend probably next several hours reading through all that stuff :)

edit2: oooh this one is good as well http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3110154/why-is-the-explic...

edit3: Not from Eric but check out this C# code:

sbyte[] foo = new sbyte[] { -1 };
var x = foo as byte[]; // doesn't compile
object bar = foo;
var f = bar as byte[]; // succeeds
var g = f[0]; // g = 255

edit4: oh and check out this description of c# compiler actions
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1917935/how-does-c-compil...
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"Top" by what measure? Has it been measured?

Some might even be harmful, for example I remember a study saying public commitment actually reduces probability of finishing. (It wasn't called public commitment in that study, but basically talking about what you want to do before doing it. Just talking about it seems to already satisfy some goals).
Unfortunately this entire article is pseudoscience. The obvious fact is that men have founded and built the vast majority of technology companies, manage most of the largest businesses, and built up most of modern science.

To state these obvious facts at Harvard is verboten; even if you are the President of Harvard University, you cannot speculate that there might be more men capable/motivated to do top notch science/engineering/business.

And forget about linking these observed differences to evolutionary underpinnings; while it is a fact that wealthier men reproduce more (and that in particular the very wealthy men through history could have almost unbounded numbers of children, while a woman can have at most 20 or so), this cannot be used
as a theoretical basis for differing incentives to achieve greatness
(from the conscious down to the evolutionary levels).

Instead we have to read articles like this, grinning and smiling and playing along. At some level even the authors must know that they are trying to disprove the obvious, commonsense point: men are simply more innovative, harder working, and more likely to have extremely
high levels of technical ability. Women have other strengths but we are prevented from acknowledging those as well; biology denial is a peculiarly common feature of our modern era, soon to be washed away by science.
What would help you start then? Another type of documentation? Just browsing the app?
There is a legal system and many people every year try
to go through that system like my parents did. I see
illegal immigrants as "cutting in line" and I see
nothing fair about it.

The problem is that if you are not a student there is basically no way to legally immigrate except:

1. Marrying an american

2. Indentured servitude via H1-B (hard to get, and if you leave your job/get fired you have to find a new job in two weeks or leave)

It used to be a lot easier in the past.
You know, the basis of democracy is that the laws are ultimately made by the same people who have to uphold them. But that doesn't hold for immigration laws. Immigration laws are made by one group of people that is completely unaffected by them for an entirely different group of people to respect.

That's why, in my view, immigration laws have no legitimacy whatsoever. Where you are born is complete chance. Some of those who happen to be born in better places think that it serves them well to keep others out in order to keep that unfair competitive advantage. Sometimes it's the very same people who pride themselves of being in favor of free trade, a level playing field, antiprotectionist, etc. A ridiculously disingenuous position considering the most important thing everyone has to trade is their own time, effort and skills.

They find all kinds of spurious reasons to defend this unfair and blatently self-serving position. One of the worst is that all countries have immigration laws. This argument mixes up practical matters with ethical ones. Obviously, it's difficult for one country to unilaterally abolish all immigration laws. But that shouldn't convince anyone that these laws have any moral foundation or are based on democracy or that they personally have a right to tell others where to settle.
More stressful, though the linked study isn't focused on showing that either way--- it takes the city/rural stress difference as an assumption from previous work, and is focused here on looking at neural correlates that might explain it (or at least be associated with or somehow mediate the process).
Thanks for this and all your writing - the Zen of Code Optimization was a hugely inspirational book for me when I was younger, and is one of the main reasons I'm a programmer (even if it has instilled a slight paranoia about performance in everything I do).

I'd love to see more writing from you!
But isn't it brilliant when you have a problem like I want to brainstorm wouldn't a mindmapping tool be cool, or I need to draw this digram in UML can I do that on my iPad and you search (better with something like disovr) and find the app you need. I agree that I use 10 apps 90% of the time but I would be annoyed if I couldn't find an app for for the other 10%
I was talking about mongo and couch, not MySQL.