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"The right question is, What is it about certain/many good developers that leads them to program in their spare time?"

I think there's another way to look at this.

The fact is, programmers who program in their spare time are usually better than average (). That doesn't mean a programmer can't be just as good if he/she doesn't* program in their spare time. It doesn't even mean that programming in their spare time helps these programmers get better, or that better programmers tend to program in their spare time. It's the other way around - programmers who program in their spare time tend to be better (and one direction being true doesn't mean the other direction is true).

The only reason people care about whether others program in their spare time, is because this correlation exists. If I know someone programs in their spare time, that's a positive signal that they are a good programmer. And it's a perfectly legitimate shortcut, when interviewing someone, to see whether they're good. People take offense at the suggestion that they're "worse" because they don't program in their spare time, when in reality, it's just a shortcut.

* I think most people will agree, at least in terms of averages. Nothing about any particular programmer.
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I've been on guilt trips because of the social aspect I'm missing (dojos, hackatons, weekly meetings in bars), but I've come to terms with it. I have a wife with whom I'd rather be, movies to watch and books to read. It's a tough balance, and ego-wise it can be brutal, but I'm aware now that after my commute home, I want to point my brain at different things.

The way I see it, the ultra-passionate, sleeps-eats-drinks code programmer is usually one who hasn't: a) learned to use his time parsimoniously; b) accepted there's a limit to how much you can do in one day; c) yet built a family. The last one, especially, if approached with gusto, will automatically make you ponder and weigh things -- and will also limit your time, fixing a and b if you don't fight it.
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I think it really depends. I have seen a lot of teams / managers would prefer a so call team player to sit there and write 500 lines of bad code, and ditch a good coder who don't go to all the bullshit meeting for write 500 lines of good code. And the glory go to the 500 lines of bad code, for showing up in meetings and talk about shits. That's respect.
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Stop giving such incredibly dangerous and illogical advice.

If they had grounds to arrest you, the would simply arrest you and interrogate you while you're under arrest. If they are "merely talking" to you, they obviously don't have grounds to arrest you.

Especially when you're innocent, you can only make it worse by naively saying something that can be spun into implicating you.

The police are not your friend in this case.
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If you look at the youtube videos poster http://www.youtube.com/user/ill318 you notice that it also links to videos about how british royalty eats people. Im pretty sure this is an epic troll. http://www.honda-tech.com/showthread.php?t=2802202 for similar hillarity
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"Over the next couple of years a lot of developers are going to make good money moving companies off of Node.js and MongoDB." - http://twitter.com/#!/b6n/status/73535660467818496
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Several of us on HN also run other social-type web site, and I'm sure we'd be interested to know your ideas on dealing with spammers and trolls.

Would you care to let us know?

Also, perhaps you could tell us your HN username that's the subject of these sanctions so we can either explain to you what's happened, or advocate your reinstatement.

Just some thoughts.
My Dad spent much of his life involved in developing-world water supplies. The class of problems they'd come up against seem to be the prototypical "Westerner Meets World" experiences eg: local priests convincing Brahmins that they'd lose their caste if they drank from newly installed village taps, as they were standing water - the result being that they'd knock the heads off all the taps, destroying the water pressure...
And if you don't have a family, but are planning one, ensure that the other potential parent can pass your technical interview.

Funny story - Bill Gates' first question to his wife was said to be "What was your math SAT?"
hmm, interesting, and I don't deny that 'commercial' companies can have good (unintentional) effects. But I am sure there is a space between charity and 'actual' companies, along the lines of what Fábio Barbosa[1] is doing. Which makes me wonder if it is viable for startups to take such an approach?

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrONJfa9lZU
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As a semi-regular attendee at devnest since near it's inception I'm frankly quite shocked and appalled that Twitter would do this.
It's great and very much welcomed that they participate, in fact it's one of the best reasons. But to want to take over the devnest seems very hostile.
I'm scared that the devnest will turn corporate and dry, one of the reasons I dont like the Facebook developer garages.
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Edit: yes, I am extremely well aware of the conventional definition. I was deliberately offering an alternative spin in context to the parent.

Case in point: ORM can handle 80% of query plans (patterns). Some, it can't handle. They are not patterns, they are the opposite: unique and non replicable. That doesn't make them bad.

However, I disagree with headline. Just because ORM doesn't handle non pattern situations doesn't make the concept an anti pattern.
Excessive load from HN? Or something else?

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If you're involved in a motor accident where someone has been hurt, it's a criminal offence to drive away. There would have been a lot more admin for the police officer to do.
raganwald has some nice thoughts and code devotes to our feathered friends.

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It's not as bad as it seems. VISA only averages 2000 transactions per second, for instance, which isn't actually that much in terms of data.
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Yeah, I think technically that would've turned it into a hit-and-run. You're not supposed to leave the scene of an accident.
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On the other hand, it's also a powerful incentive to improve computer security.
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I just watched the whole video and all I can say is wow. That guy was truly a smart man.

I watched it all the way to the end without losing focus for a second. The head fake at the end really hit hard.

Great video.
Well, not that funny, when they first met she was a MS employee. He didn't pick her up in a bar with that line!

PS Would that work?
PG says the first iteration doesn't matter much as long as the founders are good and iterate quickly. Empirically, is this the case? Airbnb and Dropbox certainly didn't iterate on their concepts that much. Google's first shot was excellent. Facebook captured 90%+ from Harvard students before moving on to conquer the world. Are there real counterexamples, or even better, hard data?

(If only YC recorded and aggregated key metrics from their startups, it would be so much easier to answer such questions)
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Hi shevegen,

Like you I dislike the way Zed has a tendency to group all Ruby people together and target them as a whole, when in reality his complaints would be better directed at a specific subset. I'm a Ruby dev (not a Rails one) and it stings when Zed fires his literary shotgun at Rails, and Ruby, standing next to Rails also gets hit.

But... this isn't about Zed being a dick. I was pointing out that there's also a massive amount of good stuff he's done as well. I'm not a fanboy of his (Zed has fanboys?) but I do have a fair bit of respect for his ability and what he has done, and his writing does nothing to diminish the quality of his work.

The comparison with DHH I thought was positive. DHH has strong opinions and (it appears) an ego to match, but can back it up with code.
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Great idea and very promising application. I've exported my favourite tracks via foobar2000 and last.fm statistics via softplaylist plugin (it creates XPSF playlist) et voila! my videoplaylist was created en instant.
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Discover's headline and use of the Terminator photo analogy doesn't make sense. The experimental group of sea monkeys from the past were the males. The health-at-risk females were from the present ('future')

Sex with males from the past is hazardous to females' health.
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Down voting?? I think, it's for poor comments--not for disagreements.
Nitpick: The village name is "Snapdeal.com Nagar". Not just Snapdeal.com. I guess it's the difference between 'Orange' and 'Orange County'.
I think it's useful and very well made. Nice job!
it works & sounds great. but i'd like to close video part completely. also a browser extension could be nice for it.
Well, in theory you could render text as HTML (with @font-face for example), and then have individual canvas elements for the geometric shapes and images.
very clear and good idea, congrats guys
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Summary: Twitter unilaterally decide to host their own #devnest meetup around the world using the same hashtag and name as an existing, very popular, London-based twitter meetup without consulting them first. They plan to take said event to London as well as a number of other locations worldwide.
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I gave you an upvote to try to undo that.

I've also had downvotes like that - it doesn't make it right.
The designer of rm is the greater culprit here, not the author of that install script. A single mistyped character should not lead to such drastic consequences.

"Usability? What's that? I'm really smart, so I don't make mistakes. If lesser humans do - that's their problem". That seems to be the attitude of many Linux programs and rm is among the worst of them. No doubt I'll get downvoted for saying this, but I've rarely, if ever, heard of such things happening in Windows. (And people still manage to delete files in Windows without too much difficulty.)
I was a bit confused at first. You should have more details on how it works
Data would be helpful, I agree.

But sometimes in iterations, you end up totally changing the product. So you might be thinking this is the first iteration of Groupon but it wasn't, the first iteration was The Point which really didn't work out and no one knows about it.
i misunderstood it at first. i thought you meant it would parse out a text file looking for meaning/relevancy and give you videos based on the text.

It's nice what you've done, just wasn't my first reaction to the Show HN text.
YouTube's playlist management is a PITA, so this is really a great idea. And it's done following the KISS principle, kudos!
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I would ignore anything cloned but never changed.

I would think patches were someone who was slightly pro-active in fixing things. (More so with more patches.)

I would think original repos were someone that had ideas or wanted to learn things, depending on the nature of the repo.

And I would examine actual code to see their style and ability.

... Pretty much like I'd evaluate a resume and code sample for an interview. Which is why I prefer to see GitHub account when applicants apply for a job.
Airbnb's first iteration was presented as being much more about actually renting air mattresses and couches in people's home. They iterated into ebay for spaces.

Dropbox's first iteration was a one-guy team working on the problem. The founder iterated into a two-founder team based on feedback. I'd say that's a significant iteration.

If you read The Facebook Effect, Facebook was simply the latest in a line of "fun hacks" Zuckerberg unleashed on his fellow students at Harvard, each one building on the next.

Sounds like every one of these projects involved iteration. It's fun to think awesomeness springs fully-formed from one's forehead, Zeus-like, but I don't that happens to often in practice.
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Every post you've made in this thread is absolutely appallingly bad and naive advice. I hope no poor soul believes this uninformed nonsense you've written here and gets their life ruined because of it. I don't mean to have this kind of attitude on HN, of all places, but you obviously don't have the slightest clue what you're talking about (all of your "advice" is about how you would see it, i.e. less than worthless) but insist on continuing to blather on and on with your anti-advice. Please stop.

A cop's job is not to catch bad guys, it's to solve cases. If they are having a hard time solving a case and some naive person walks in and explains everything then they've just found someone with opportunity. Now they just need a plausible motive and their work is done.

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This appears to be an actually consequential discussion, compared to what normally happens on HN.
I would be interested in knowing how your rankings change if you put some adsense into your pages. You said in your blog that you removed advertisements from your site- I assume that those were ads that didnt't go through Google. I wonder if Google rewards those who do advertise with adsense.
Don't you mean sarcasm or are you being ironic?
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Sorry for the confusing title. roll.io takes txt files, searches every line in youtube and plays the results one after the other.

This is the result of a tiny hackathon. We wanted to listen to the old playlists of Woxy.com
No entirely. DELETE will work with cascading foreign keys, while TRUNCATE will not, at least on SQL Server. Also, DELETE is logged and (I believe) TRUNCATE is not. Having said that, I agree that a WHERE clause should be required - you can always say "WHERE 1=1" or similar if you really mean to delete all rows.
Who is voting up this garbage? Not only is this advice nonsense, it's dangerous.
Airbnb was iterating prior to being part of YC, they've given several interviews where they talked about how they'd gone through several launches and failed to take off and had to iterate on their model. For example they started out by only being an introduction service, but they found handling the payment in person was actually a major issue (socially awkward, no record of transaction, etc.) so the end up incorporating payment handling into their service. That was likely a critical iteration.

Google's primary business is Ads which wasn't what they started with.
Voted up if only for the title.
What's the difference with the <link rel="canonical"> tag ? For those documents that are not HTML ? Seem not very useful to me.
hah. I know my ancestors were farmers not just 'cause I am kinda built that way, but also 'cause both of my parents grew up on farms, and I still occasionally visit those farms. But yeah; I also lift, though not as part of a disciplined regimen. I also prefer free weights to machines, in part 'cause I do have do move heavy things as part of my job, and I know that being able to handle things at odd angles and being able to stabilize things is probably more important (when trying to avoid injury) than raw strength of an isolated muscle.

I'm just saying, 5 sets of 5 reps, repeated for 3-4 different muscle groups doesn't take all that long. I mean, maybe more than 10 minutes, but not all that much more. I mean, strength is an important component of health, but I think cardio is also important.

That said, I have never really stuck to a disciplined routine; usually I work out regularly for a few weeks, see huge gains in terms of strength (not much by way of fat loss) and then kinda get bored around the time when I am no longer able to add more weight every time I lift, so it's likely that if I stuck with it longer, I'd have a different opinion.

I mean, I'm 6' and 200# right now, and I've been around this weight since about 22-23 or so. I mean, it's been as high as 220 and as low as 190 but in that range. The fat is relatively distributed; I do enough lifting that my man-boobs can usually pass for pecs as long as you don't touch them and I don't bounce too much. It's pretty obvious if I let it go for a few months though. I've got a little bit of a belly. A spare bicycle tire, I joke. It's definitely there, but it's not really big enough to qualify as a full spare tire.

Thanks for the link though, it looks like an interesting program; I'm going to try adapting it to just the adjustable barbells that I have (I don't have an olympic bar right now due to space constraints) I've been taught 3 sets of 8 reps, but this program looks pretty good. I will try it. I've also been meaning to add squats with weights to my routine (I added body-weight squats some time ago. I believe that I have good form at this point, but I think I'll get a professional to check out my form before I move to weight. I think my form is good, but squats with bad form are probably the easiest way to injure yourself with weights.)

I mean, I am convinced that lifting burns calories far beyond lifting the bar; I mean, that's obvious from the heat you generate for the next day or two. but nearly everyone I know who has gone from being fat to being not-fat has done a significant amount of cardio (and dieting) along the way. What studies I have seen also suggest that cardio is important.
I think the site is down.
Google text only cache here:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Np7ljkB...

Update (chart):
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Best i could do from online caches, hope this site comes back cause I'd like to see a bigger chart.
This is as usual for a korpo giant press release, complete BS.
What is is really saying is that MS is not going to work with WebGL like they would any other open standard in preference for their own proprietary formats. This of course is the fascist company that is more than happy to hand over backdoor keys to any power with enough cash where the only security they are concerned with is their own financial security.

Is WebGL perfect no. Does it need the help many developers to overcome some of it's shortcomings, yes. Are there many MS fanboies around, yes, but fewer everyday.

What a crock.
Silverlight's integration with the host browser, DOM and Javascript is pretty good.

I'm pretty sure you could build a WebGL API on top of Silverlight by yourself. It would suck, but it is possible.

That's why I always thought Silverlight is pretty cool as a technology, as compared to Flash. Among other things, a Silverlight plugin could also allow you to serve OGG Theora videos to users.
Ars' posts are exactly the kind of thing that should be downvoted into the stone age. It's horrible, naive and (worst of all) dangerous advice. Anyone listening to this clown could end up in prison. Personally, if I had powers here I would have banned him by now. He clearly hasn't got any idea what he's talking about but continues to shit all over the thread with his moronic advice.
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Clicking on the logo should bring you a list of public limitgrids. I should've made it a little more obvious.
I think there used to be some diagrams, so the text-only version might not be the whole picture. Unfortunately that's all we can get right now.
Exactly. Down-voting is not to show disagreement, it's to cull comments that don't contribute to the discussion. What I'm proposing would hopefully make people question their motives before down-voting.
Big words, little substance. This is why I'm not on twitter.
Where is that sharp pointed object when you need it?
Dont spend canards. Probably your dad was a missionary.
But the iPad 1 is cheaper.
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>As to human fitness - I expect that we'll widely use gentech before that becomes an issue

That would be even worse. Whatever our notion of fitness would be, it's definitely different from nature's needs. If anything, gentech would make fitness worse before making it better.
Unless this open letter gets a very significant amount of media coverage, facebook isn't going to do jack to help any of their users out when the user's government doesn't doesn't want facebook to. Facebook has become big enough that they're scared of what rocking the boat, even the tiniest bit, will do to their buisness opportunities.
as in... Orange County?
This is true, but doesn't invalidate my point
You don't even need to pay people to move, you just need to have a better society (and get rid of all the immigration laws which prevent this from happening).
Just wondering, did you have any dev experience prior to taking on Rails?

Great presentation, wish there was a video version too.
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One could easily argue that if you are not guilty, you have so much more to risk.

The advice you are giving in this thread is downright terrible. You clearly don't understand some very basic legal concepts, and everyone would be better off doing the exact opposite of what you suggest.

There's being wrong, then there's a refusal to admit you might be wrong that is so stubborn and adamant to the point of being malicious.
Not programming outside of work is an indicator rather than a cause of 'bad programmer'.

Programming outside of work indicates that you like programming. If you are bad at programming you will not like programming, as it will be frustrating.

It also indicates that you are reasonably smart, probably get bored watching television, and are at least a little intellectually curious. If you are specifically programming something 'fun' to unwind after a long day of work, you are clearly comfortable programming, and you have interesting (enough) ideas about what to program.(It also indicates that there are no decent pubs within walking distance).

If you are programming in your free hours because some guy on stack overflow said 'this is what you must do to be the greatest programmer,' you are probably an idiot. No amount of outside work programming will help you.
Ah yes, because today's demographies without easy access to birth control are rocketing past us in fitness.

Increased female reproductive choice (of whether and with whom to mate) yields an upward trend in fitness because it results in fewer, better cared for offspring.