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Two questions. What counts as an advanced degree? And why is starting companies considered important separably from say working in one?

Starting a company and moving to another country are both fairly large life disruptions, and doing both at once would decreases the success of either working well.

If I manage to get a green card I would probably focus first on just getting a job to move to and get myself stable before starting a startup, whereas I am already stable here and could consider starting a business where I already know my way around etc.
In Vernor Vinge's novel Rainbows End governments have done pretty much what you describe - running any kind of computing device that isn't part of their "secured" infrastructure is illegal:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End

Note: one of the many interesting things about the book is that it creates a scenario where this kind of control is very much a grey area.
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Time and time again, Slashdot's voting system shows that it's superior to these simple up/down voting systems. Not all up votes are equal, nor are all down votes simply because you disagree with the content.
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"the id thing is just bs."

By no means am I a CSS expert, but I'd hesitate to call someone's ideas "bs" if that person has the kind of experience Sullivan has.

I may not like all of Douglas Crockford's suggestions in JSLint, but you know what? He's way more experienced with JS than I am, and doing what JSLint says has saved me pain on more than one occasion.
Am I missing something? Isn't one way to fix downvoting to make them subtractive for both parties?
Then if something is on-topic but content-free, why would I bother to flag it? How do I get rewarded for doing the right thing? Why should I not just leave it to someone else?

The idea is to reward correct behavior, whereas your suggestion punishes it.
I, and I'm sure many others here also, am unfamiliar with SlashDot's system. Could you point to a summary? Perhaps simply edit your comment to include one.

Thanks.
I know the title says "in brief", but it's a little too brief for me. From the horse's mouth:

http://www.varnish-software.com/blog/varnish-30-changes-esi-...

http://www.varnish-software.com/blog/bans-and-purges-varnish...

http://www.varnish-software.com/blog/streaming-varnish-30

Something to pay attention to from that streaming post: if the asset you're streaming isn't already in the varnish cache, only the first user to request it will get it streamed. All other clients will be blocked until the first stream is complete and cached.

> The object will be set to busy while it is streamed. Other clients will be put on hold. Furthermore, the rate at which the object is fetched by the client dictates how fast Varnish will fetch it from the backend.

Unless I'm reading the above wrong, [re-warming your cache for these large objects would seem more prudent than relying on streaming.

There's also a nice write-up by Redpill Linpro employee and Varnish contributor Kristian Lyngstøl:

http://kristianlyng.wordpress.com/2011/06/09/varnish-3-0-0-r...
I know some of the things that SASS gets you, but I'm curious: how DRY and light is your generated CSS?

Anecdotally, the designer where I work uses SASS, but in our last iteration of our web app, his compiled stylesheet was something like 10,000 lines.
Talent war? Sounds more like a salary bubble reminiscent of the housing bubble. No wonder so many things aren't made in America any more. We're just so expensive to hire.

Then again, with all these teenagers and college kids founding million dollar startups, who's left for Google and Facebook to hire? The top 10% are the ones they want to hire, but they are already starting their own business. It takes a lot of money to lure these people away.
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For fiction, I'd vote for the First and Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen Donaldson.

He's often mocked for deploying the less-visited corners of the OED, but some people love that sort of joy in language. The antihero has never been done better, and the inversion of the whole 'wake up in a fantasy land' trope is brilliant and explored to its logical conclusions.

Give it to Book 2 of the First Chronicles ('The Illearth War') before you decide whether you like them.
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Is there a way I can track how many calls are being made to my API among other things?

Apigee seems to do this but it's really expensive. Any other solution?

Thanks
American pyramid scheme does rhyme with American dream; this seems like a way to keep newcomers working to feed the incumbents.

This worked fine when Europe was heavily in debt post world war and China was a backwater, but Europe is now ticking along fine, China is doing well, and we are all looking abit wryly at America's lack of social safety nets.

Grrr... Hands off our entrepreneurs. Grow your own.
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I have no data on the tax contribution of immigrants, but their welfare use is very high.

http://cis.org/immigrant-welfare-use-2011

However, data on estimated tax liability is present, and it suggests immigrants are liable for very little in tax. This should be unsurprising - taxes are primarily paid by the highest income brackets, and immigrants tend to lie within the lowest income brackets.
I 100% completely agree with the article. ORM's are dangerous.

ORM's solve a problem we dont really have, but introduce a whole load of new problems we never had before (lazy loading does not work, object relations work completley different from table contraints, designing the domain layer to fit our persistance layer, learning new proprietary query languages, inability to control sql queries)

I am continuously amazed at how keen developers are to adopt them as a core part of a their product.

Thanks for the article - I feel relieved others feel the same way!
Given:

(1) Skyhook wanted it's service to ship.

(2) Samsung wanted Skyhook's service to ship.

(3) Motorola wanted Skyhook's service to ship.

According to you:

(4) Google didn't care

Observe:

(5) Skyhook's service did NOT ship.

It's pretty clear that (4) is the non sequitur. What mystical forces do you suggest stopped this from shipping if not Google?
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I don't know if it's that simple: the very act of getting to America from Mexico has got to be cheaper and easier than from any of the other countries that you mentioned, surely. That is to say, because it's a lot cheaper to actually get to the USA from Mexico, more blue collar workers ("less entrepreneurial") are able to do so.

If all of those other countries shared a border with the USA, only then could you really start comparing the 'entrepreneurship ratio'.
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The way I think about it, active record is the strong option for crud, but doesn't scale well past it.

Once you're dealing with many tables I think you need the ability to accumulate a graph representing a new state and then commit it as a transaction.

While you could do this in an adhoc manner with active record, it's not a way of life in the way it is in EOF/Cayenne.

There are complications of the object to relational mapping that it doesn't deal with. For example - no mechanism for dealing with situations where someone change data underneath the object graph a user is working against in memory. AR would blast over the top of the data with what it has in memory, potentially breaking in the process.

Some ORM systems have locking levels. For example, with 'optimistic locking' you get an exception if data changed underneath you. It's handy to be able to catch an exception, email the support team, and tell the user to freeze and contact them, in a way that doesn't discard the data they've just entered.

I find it backwards that active record exposes methods like insert, delete, update. These are low-level sql concepts, and you shouldn't need to care about them within an object system where you're thinking in terms of a graph of data. It's very wired to the database though. As far as a "mapping" between object and relational, active record is crudely simple.

On a positive note, you can hammer an AR out in your language of choice from memory, without reference to any external libraries or the like. It's a good wrench in the toolbox.
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Your comment doesn't add anything to the conversation, you don't supply information on why you wouldn't be upgrading, or what the advantages/disadvantages are to you (or anyone else). You just added meaningless noise to the thread. I'd have downvoted it myself.
I'd certainly register, look at it, and play with it a bit.
This is the same advice given by every good photographer. David Bailey once said, the easiest way to double the quality of your portfolio is to throw away half of it. When you see an exhibition by a top photographer, you might be looking at the best 50 out of 50,000 images. But you have to be shooting, all the time, to pull this off.
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It's funny that you would mention "social safety nets" when it is most likely the economies of those areas that push the entrepreneurs to the U.S. I'm not saying the U.S. doesn't have its own issues (boy, does it), but I don't see why entrepreneurs shouldn't come here if it is in their best interest. If Europe and China want to keep their entrepreneurs, they should start making themselves more attractive to entrepreneurs.
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Use while for optimization.
Downvote all you want it's an accurate statement:

This is my Next, today:
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Symmetry is symmetry, no matter what I do think of it. If you make symmetrical actions for asymmetrical intents, that is just bad UI.
I've had enough comments downvoted purely on disagreement (including the one above. Or was it "stupid"?) to not to buy your "custom" argument.
> It takes time for the other generators to change output levels, so during high speed wind turbines tend to get disconnect from the grid because of the harmful effects they have on it.

Traditionally, a wind turbine generator works only in narrow range of speeds (say, 2000 rpm). In older designs the variable speed of wind was addressed by using a (massive) gearbox, not unlike what you have in your car. The newer designs (e.g. what Siemens Windpower is churning out now) are gearless, don't suffer from that problem, and have in ballpark of 40% better energy efficiency.

The cap/penetration effects of wind power on the grid are being studied, but on levels below 1/5th of total consumption it is believed to not cause any substantial problems. Most of the existing grids can accommodate that. I think no country approached the 20% wind power penetration yet.
Unfortunately, I need to post a "me too" comment to let the OP know (I can't just upvote anymore!)
Unless you accidentally close or reload the browser window (or there's a power failure). This has happened to me more times than I care to remember.
It does remind of a discussion forum, and one of the problems with forums is display advertisers don't like paying to be on them. Perhaps it is high profile enough to escape this stigma? Such as attracting sponsorship deals for different categories.
Inline C can offer more than just simple extensions.

I've extended Varnish 2.1.* to include a custom authentication layer that basically means I can drop multiple different applications behind Varnish and have the equivalent of a Web Account (of the ilk of Google Account, Yahoo Account, etc).

The functions provided by the shared library I've written require a whole load of VCL to grab hold of parts of the cookie and to pass things into the functions, before then handling the return values and re-writing headers (that the backend servers then look for).

It all works really well, and I haven't found VCL to be an ugly domain specific language to work with, especially when you consider that it translates directly to C which is then compiled.

When I think of what it took to write an Nginx mod, VCL with Inline C is a dream.
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Livejournal did this in 2010 and their regexes were pretty bad redirecting GlutenFreeBay.com to ebay.com thinking they were changing affiliate parameters. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1168331
I've noticed that most extroverts think like this. People who are extroverted usually have problems understanding what being introverted is like, and usually just see it as a different label to give social anxiety a more socially acceptable image, since it seems it's easier to understand for them. They assume everybody is an extrovert, just like them, but some people just feel social anxiety and call themselves extroverts. What you call "the traditional use" seems to me like the traditional misconception about introverts.

I'm an introvert myself, and I don't feel social anxiety. I grew up thinking I was shy, since my introversion seemed to be traditionally and socially identified with shyness, but at one point I realized I didn't feel social anxiety at all. It actually seemed to me that extrovert were much more worried about social situations and how they were perceived socially than me.

I don't try to explain my introversion to extroverts because I've noticed most of them don't get it. This makes it hard to use as an excuse, or even as a reasonable reason for your behaviour. I get dragged to social situations sometimes because extroverted people just assume I'll have fun if I just relax a bit, and sometimes I accept because I don't want to be rude. The result is I don't feel anxious or anything like that, I just get bored fast and want to go home soon. If I were actually interested in some activity being an introvert wouldn't get in the way, because being interested in it would keep my interest. It's just that social activities don't usually keep my interest for too long. They just feel like a boring waste of time to me, not something that makes me anxious.

This doesn't mean I don't enjoy social situations sometimes. I enjoy parties and concerts and stuff like that. I'm just the kind of guy who leaves the party early with some kind of excuse, not because of social anxiety, but because I'm starting to get tired and bored with the whole thing. I don't ever use "I'm an introvert" as an excuse, since I know people will not get it. I don't use it and I don't see other people use it to explain why they do certain things or don't do other things.
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Url for the lazy:

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I think the push is declining.
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The immigration policy under Obama administration is the worst. Its sad that many of the employees returning back been in the US have higher education and been there 5 - 6 years. Imagine you are being kicked out of home with no warning what so ever.
Whilst I agree that there is more chance of having one successful essay on the Internet, I don't buy the notion of decontextualisation.

If it takes 99 essays to write one which meets the demands of your audience, you can't help but think they've switched off already.
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Summary: Newbie game programmer writes engine, not game. Engine is largely unproven, since no game was shipped, and most of the effort went into adding potentially unnecessary abstractions.

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"The debate is too polarised to be useful, or even interesting, any more"

Except that is probably part of the strategy - FUD. If you give up, the people in control are free do act as they please.

How do you propose to give incentives for development of those things you suggest? Don't you think more expensive energy would make people build more efficient things, recycle better, create cleaner energy?
I get what he's trying to say about smart people making shit happen in the 60-ties. But those predicted ideas still require lots and lots of work, no matter how smart you are.

Also, I don't buy it that people in a field get dumber (although the noise gets louder). It can also mean that all obvious ideas have been explored already and there's nothing new to invent without seriously big budgets, new ideas that won't get discovered anyway since with big budgets you also want a return and so low-hanging fruits are still targeted.

He talks about Windows Vista, a piece of software I absolutely loathe, but I'm sure that even Vista shows signs of brilliance and new ideas in its implementation, even though the impression and experience of the whole is less than stellar.

Also, software is complex and these early adopters of computer-science also predicted that software will get exponentially harder to develop and that a silver bullet for managing complexity won't happen. A piece of software like Vista is many times more complex than anything these people did in the 60-ties, even though its usefulness or elegance may be less.

When thinking about patents this article clearly has a point about how broken and corrupt the whole system is. However, personally I don't think there's ever going to be an end to it - unless big companies throw their weight at abolishing patents; unfortunately big companies also have patents portfolios, which is a serious war arsenal that can be used in their favor for defense, profits and getting rid of the competition.

So it's depressing, but that's just how things are.
Nice de-obfuscation! Though I'm guessing they don't detect packers etc. http://jsbeautifier.org/ will remain a bookmark.
Nice idea, and given I've had success hiring through a HN who's Hiring thread in the past I'd very likely use it. I had been working on a job board project of my own (http://www.jobstractor.com) but have struggled with traction to date. I think there's definitely opportunities for better jobs boards and especially for cutting out recruiters from the process. If I can lend a hand let me know and I'll do what I can.
He was actually in 21st place at one point, which, because three drivers out of a field of 24 had dropped out, was last.

It was an amazing 20 or so laps.
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My father-in-law is a Chinese millionaire (in GBP terms) and wouldn't dream of emigrating. The things that tie him to his homeland are all the usual elements: shared culture, shared language (very important, as he can't speak English), a huge range of cuisine.

China is a very nice place to live, especially if you are a millionaire, and I would be surprised if a larger proportion of rich Chinese emigrated than do e.g. the USA-born rich.
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Few serious people claim that European countries have been ruined by immigration. The reason for the political backlash has more to do with political motives, and economical changes which have nothing to do with immigration (sharp decrease of low-skill, high wage incomes, etc...).
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You've never seen a large app that didn't use ORM? What about every large business application from the late 70s-early 2000s?

A) I'm not sure why its execeptionally boring. Solving problems with sql is interesting and elegant in it's own way (like using recursion or functional programming to create an new algorithm).

Lots of people posting who don't know so much about the specifics of the database the are using. Why spend thousands on Oracle or SqlServer then abstract all those features out?

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I'm having a hard time believing this. Will iPhone users really allow this?

I don't even go to concerts, but just them telling me I couldn't use my phone as I like would see me switching to something else.
I get it just fine, do you?

See how easy a cheap argument that adds nothing to the discussion is?

If it's so obvious why don't you go ahead and explain it. I'll recap the argument so far, you tell me where I went wrong.

(1) It was claimed that Android was "truly open".

(2) I disagree and use the example of Skyhook.

(2a) I believe if Android was "truly open" Motorola and Samsung would be allowed to ship the device with another vendor's location service.

(2b) Obviously they couldn't so I conclude claims of "true openness" are overblown.

(3) At this point people start claiming absurd things like "Google doesn't care if Skyhook shipped"

(3a) When imho they obviously did because there's no other explanation for why skyhook's location service didn't ship.
The original article on Hacker News - from The Register - was a bit sensational, that's just their style, a tech tabloid.

To be honest, I don't think sun spots were exclusively to blame for Dickens era of cold weather in Europe. Wasn't there some talk about the Atlantic belt faltering as well? Perhaps the jet stream moved too.
I don't buy it. There's no Facebook-killer at the moment to drive these people away, and they aren't going to just give up on social networks...

So instead, I think it's something else. Facebook closing invalid accounts, or something.
There is a similar tool called http://code.google.com/p/css-x-fire/ which allows you to take the firebug changes and then selectivly apply then into PHP Storm IDE.
too bad it doesn't help if you are doing any kind of server side css processing. sass, less, or even just combining css into a single file.
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This is beyond. Where does it end? Governments and corporations will no doubt misuse this technology. Imagine a corporate HQ with this at the gate. Maybe a tank with this on the turret or riot police with this on their helmets.

I, for one, would not buy a phone with this "feature".
while the quotes are of very interesting people, my belief is different:

http://design-to-last.com/2011/06/shut-up-and-write/
Don't count on it? Honestly, I'm not counting on anything involving the climate.
What's the thinking on the limitations? Is this just supposed to make the users think they are part of an elite bunch? Are the employers supposed to think that somehow selects only elite hackers?