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As someone who taught himself programming at a young age, perhaps my experiences may be helpful.

My first two "languages" were HTML and qbasic, both of which were learned loosely from books. HTML was "HTML for dummies", and basic from whatever was available at the library at the time. While HTML is not a programming language it was a way for me to type in "cryptic" text and see meaningful output, which as a youngin' was enough to give me the bug.

I say loosely learned from books because with each language I had a project in mind while learning it. I was gifted with a domain and webhost which I was determined to put to use, animated gifs, frames and all. It also provided me with something to brag about to friends, which again was enticing at a young age.

As for basic, I still distinctly remember procrastinating my real homework and studies to write simple programs that I figured would benefit me in the long run. Things like random math problems, vocabulary tests, practice history tests etc.

While this may not be directly related to web dev, it may be useful for those younger folks itching to get into programming. Try to point them in a direction of a problem in their lives that can be automated, simplified or enhanced through the learning of a language. I understand that things are a bit different today but if someone truly wants to learn I think that may be a good road to travel down.
I've seen this result before. I think it's generally under-emphasized as it calls into question the justice* of setting aside resources for 'gifted' students if said resources also improve the outcomes for average students.

The rather sad, obvious truth here is that _everyone_ could benefit from better teaching - not just the kids with known issues at the top and the bottom.

Note "resources" != "money thrown at the problem". There are plenty of expensive interventions that don't work.

* this will probably provoke the usual hysterical stuff from the self-proclaimed HN geniuses that were terribly bored in school (unlike everyone else, who was, I suppose, riveted).
I have Zero friends from facebook on Google+ but then it took them all well over a year to gather on facebook so i don't expect any of then to port over to Google+ I don't have tech savy friends
Yes, I just meant that there probably isn't any real market for someone selling these devices at a premium, because soon they'll come free with any ADSL plan or any TV anyway.
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> If true, every company could turn their employees into geniuses by telling them they were.

Only if they were hiring children.
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If I understood him right, I think he means while news about G+ is all over Twitter and in fact, everywhere, the other side of the coin is that even on G+, all you see is discussion about G+ itself. In other words, G+ is still in the buzzy meta phase. Only when people on G+ stop talking G+ that things start to mean something.
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No, they mean "in Space". Why attempt to subvert the obviously standard usage of the word? It's just silly.
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At least that would be my guess, that they also look for keywords.
And those IBM mainframes are massively more reliable than the crap (software and hardware) we use today.
Then again most advertisements aim to be at least a little bit distracting. What would be the point of an ad that nobody sees?
So who do you recommend today?
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I feel Google's strategy is indecisive, thus leads to you and I's confusion about the tool's purpose. I feel G+ produces the features of a more private Facebook (by directly implementing Paul Adam's model that matches more closely to the real life social graph), but advocates the use of an advanced Twitter (by inviting famous folks in for people to follow) and effectively builds the social graph top-down rather than bottom-up as in Facebook's case.

Pundits have already speculated that social networks aren't supposed to grow top-down, and G+ will ultimately fail (http://www.techjournalsouth.com/2011/07/why-google-will-fail...). Then again Google has always detested doing something too manually, especially when it involves human beings.
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You mean the "black bar".
Another happy customer here.

I wish more people would signup - since that would assure long term stability/security of my bookmark archive.

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I think this says as much about twitters user base as it goes about g+.
Alternatively: links/elinks/lynx http://news.ycombinator.com/ ;-)
The big question, as usual: Can it be filtered?
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Our product is Code Pal: http://www.codepal.me

It is a way to learn programming in a fun and engaging way. Basically, we allow students to learn programming by using their own social data (imagine writing a for loop to print out the names of all your Facebook friends etc.). Our target market is students (and potentially teachers who want to use it in their class).

My question is how do you price the product? Right now, I allow students to try out 10 exercises for FREE and then charge $29.95 to access the remaining ones. I am not sure what to benchmark the price against. Charging too much is clearly not going to work but how much is too much. Also, I don't have enough traffic at this time to A/B test pricing.

How should we proceed?
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Same for me. Nearly all posts so far have been about Google+ or testing its features.

The problem is, with G+, you will see less posts on general because people will be posting to their specific circles which you might not be in.
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First day I opened a web browser was IE6 back in 1998 and the first site was Google. Somebody explained to me that I can find whatever I wanted using Google. Voila! But at that very moment I had only one question to ask - "How this(Google) website was made ?"

I learnt, when I began searching for how to develop websites.

When people ask about web development give them keywords to begin with and hint them to search unless you are being paid to teach them.

Edit: phrases
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Misko's blog is brilliant and it is truly a shame he isn't posting as much as he used to

Some posts relevant to this discussion

http://misko.hevery.com/2008/08/17/singletons-are-pathologic...

http://misko.hevery.com/code-reviewers-guide/flaw-brittle-gl...
nice to see more people discover password managers, definitely a newsworthy item. wait...
The question is: Who are you liable to? You are never liable to some dead person, but to some other living person.

If, in the future, there are people who are carrying some kind of burden because of the government debt established today, then there will also be, in the future, people who are benefiting from the government debt established today.

This is why I consider it a red herring to think of the debt as an inter-temporal issue. It is, if anything, at most an distributional fairness issue among the people living at any one point in time.

You might worry that in the future, the people won't have the tools at their disposal to fix those distributional fairness issues. However, since a monetarily sovereign government has the ultimate control over the interest rate that it pays on its debts (and the flows of interest payments are what is most relevant), this is not a concern.

I realize that this last part is very counter-intuitive if you're used to thinking only in terms of options available to the currency user. Read about how interest rates and liquidity operations of the central bank actually work: http://pragcap.com/resources/understanding-modern-monetary-s...

The bottom line is: If the political will to do it is there, those distributional issues can always be fixed in the medium term by manipulating the interest rate. One might have to switch over to using fiscal policy for inflation control, and capital constraints to limit runaway bank lending, but some economists argue that this is preferable anyway.
Keepass is quite advanced and has exporting ability. I switched to it several years ago from PINs using export in half an hour. No problems with transition. Also lost quite a few harddrives and laptops during those years - no problems if you have a backup, and you always have because your passwords database is synced across all of your computers (or it does not make sense).

So, no, there are no problems using password managers. I don't understand how somebody can be NOT using one in this day and time, seems pretty crazy to use insecure or similar passwords.
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> Some people feel @auth_required() is ugly. That's all.

The biggest issue here is backwards compatibility. Nowadays I just make a separate decorator that accepts arguments and keep the old one around unchanged. I learned my lesson :)
It depends on the firm.

Given that there is a term for avoiding this (Chinese Wall[1]), many companies go out of their way to make sure this doesn't occur.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_wall#Journalism
>“I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.”

I understand his line of thinking, but the question is could he pass that law? He has a substantial amount of money that could be spent on lobbying, media, etc. But how do you get people who have spent a career chasing power to sign a law that will strip them of that power?
Is PG in G+ ?
Define 'use' I guess.

Most professionals I know have a LinkedIn profile. In terms of active usage however, I'm not entirely sure that many visit the site regularly themselves.

Recruiters and people from other organizations are probably more liable to view profiles than the users themselves. Is this a bad thing or any different from a rolodex or business card?
This is really cool. I do would like to know the possibilities such as using it for larger sized robots for cargo transport etc.
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This is the actual paper about the Planar Fourier Capture Array (PFCA). This is a followup to my earlier submission - I'd remove that one, but it's too late to edit it, and I'd rather have this as a separate submission forreasons I find hard to explain.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2745270
The actual paper in its own submission:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2745423
otoh a lot of enterprise java code is probably tied to windows in some fashion. And linux runs best on x86.
In this case it is, but it isn't in others (like kUSD or G$).

Oh, I always thought that you write a numeral before the dollar sign... Thanks for pointing that out. It differs between currencies - for example, british pounds are written before numeral (£42), but polish złoty are written after (42zł).
What they wanted was "less damage and deaths by cobra."
The difference is that with a web browser, you can switch from IE to a superior browser and all your favorite web sites will still work (apps built for IE6 compatibility notwithstanding). This isn't true of switching from x86 Windows to some-other-OS on some-other-architecture -- your existing special-purpose business apps won't work. You have to switch everything out.

That's not to say that Windows can't get displaced, but that it's a lot different from displacing IE. You can't just switch from Windows and have nearly everything working the same from day 1.
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I try and compliment my online reading with the physical as much as possible. I like to keep three different types of books nearby per week; one career related, one non-fiction that is not career related and one fiction. This is my baseline and I add to it on a weekly basis as I see fit - no fewer than three books a week though.
Do you think the government ought to have the right to invade a person's mind and analyze its contents? I find that idea repugnant - under no circumstance should the mind be available to third party scrutiny.

Government are already doing that. There are already numerous precedents for compulsory polygraph tests[1], which would provide a precedent to use a more effective mind interface.

[1] eg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygraph#Use_with_sex_offender...
Yeah, its not really at true singleton in the dangerous sense in the context of a webserver, when you have a separate copy of the environment for each HTTP connection. It wouldn't be a singleton unless the same state could be accessed by different HTTP sessions.

I haven't come across a web framework that enables this, as you might expect; there's no good reason to do so.
I find it pretty clever to generate Robot faces rather than whole robots or other pictures. Human brains are optimized for face recognition, which is why we can tell even minor differences in faces far easier than minor differences in other pictures.

Therefore, generating human faces would serve this purpose even better, but those are at risk of falling into the uncanny valley. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley)

Using clearly non-human faces (such as Robot faces) avoids that problem.
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Is this talk available anywhere?
I think this study is being misunderstood here. Giftedness in most cases isn't something you either have or
don't. Often it's a result of a better intellectually stimulating environment when growing up. Students of the same age that grew up in less stimulating environments will naturally be behind in a number of areas due to having less developed (or less extensive) neural structures in the areas of background knowledge, mental models, and other various mental procedures. In a lot of cases I believe these students can catch up, but placing them in even less stimulating environments will not accomplish this, and rather widen the gap.

Secondly and in addition, a major part of this study is about the effects various influences have on an individuals' intelligence theories and motivation -- effects of expectations, stereotypes, and also teacher behavior in class. Plenty of studies have shown how various external influences have a massive effect on a students' achievement due to the theory on intelligence they form from these influences.

So I agree giving good teachers to everybody is the solution, however there are definitely other environmental factors involved that complicate the issue. For one, breaking up students into gifted/non-gifted categories adds yet another stereotype that could potentially be harmful to both the non-gifted and gifted students.

I believe the solution would encompass having teachers that understand how these influences affect students, which will give them the capability to structure their classes and their instruction in such a way to dissipate any damage these influences can make, and instead turn them into catalysts for growth.
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That's really unfortunate. Were the employees able to just take a few months off to relax?
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Not in the UK. I don't think the tongue-twister is well known here, but the phrase is used in the other sense in the TV show Dad's Army[1], which is still shown on the BBC. However, it's only used by one character[2], who's supposed to be 70 at the time World War II starts. So, I think it's a very outdated expression, and not likely to cause offence when used in the context of a programming library. I've certainly never heard the expression used other than in the TV show (where, as far as I know, it's still not censored - it's understood that the character's views were outdated even at the time the show was set).

The term is from a Kipling poem[3]:

"A derogatory term for a black person, especially one with fuzzy hair... From... one of Rudyard Kipling's... poems, written in 1918. The poem is in the voice of an unsophisticated British soldier and expresses admiration rather than contempt, although expressed in terms that sound patronizing today."

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There are so many meta-problems to deal with when using password managers, I think in the long run they might be more trouble than they're worth.

On a totally unrelated note, I think this abuse of the word 'meta' has gone to far and has to stop. Why are these 'meta' problems and not just problems?
Ok, I sort of see where you're coming from. But what am I trying to get them to comply to? I suppose I am trying to get them to comply when it comes to being disciplined in their approach to being productive at the office. I'm also trying to get them to comply in leading active, healthy, balanced lifestyles. But since the intent of this strategy is really in the best interest of the team member, I don't see it as a typical compliance tactic, which tends to promote the best interest of the employer at the expense of the staff member.

You do bring up an interesting point. One of the guys that we're hiring now brought this point up and said, 'what if I really want to work overtime for the following reasons..." And he brought up some good points. It was a great conversation and probably deserves its own blog post.

I'd be curious to ask you though: why did you have a desire to work excessively, and what did you get out of it?
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Singletons are great for some things, and not bad design at all. Font managers, sound managers, upload managers, focus managers, anything that starts and stops threads are all good candidates for them. Singletons are an obvious solution for any program that needs to round-robin users to one of many nodes upon login and then leave them there for all classes to communicate with. Especially if you might need all your classes to suddenly start talking to a different server node instead. There's no reason -- and it's possibly dangerous -- to create multiple instances of any of the above...and the ability to (for instance) globally alter the volume of all the sounds of a given type in your game, or call a static function to play any sound, far outweighs the supposed design beauty of OO in those cases. In fact, you could argue that OO code only really works because it relies on a single instance of the system it's running on to manage one or more threads, one or more sound channels through a single set of speakers, etc.

If common sense would dictate that there should never be more than one instance of something, then enforcing that becomes good design, the equivalent of writing good docs and clean virtual classes / interfaces.
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