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The best advice I can give you is to write as much as you can before you start coding. Putting a program or app together is 60% critical thinking, 20% writing, and 20% error management. If you've already got some ideas, try to break them down as much as possible.

As for specific languages to learn: startups in particular seem to love Ruby, but honestly, they all work the same way, fundamentally. I crashed through the basics of Ruby in a week, started learning JavaScript, and stopped shortly after realizing that the majority of it was the same code just written differently.

++ to keeping a journal. It keeps you in check, because even though you say will will devote so much time a week to it, you won't. I had to start setting personal goals on a daily basis. That drive alone is helping. Keeping a blog is great for peer support too. I don't get many comments on mine, but it definitely feels good when someone stops by to say, "Hey, this is cool stuff."

Hope that helps, and good luck!
No, your logic is wrong, the implication is not that. It simply means that they chose Facebook offer because it made more sense for them, even though they totally believed in the initiative.

There is no logic implication that says otherwise and definitely is not in Mike's article, that is just an opinion of yours you are trying to support.
You're assuming people care about that use case. I think in most cases it's irrelevant.
Cool, I didn't know that.

// has another meaning in XML XPath, a language for navigating XML documents. // selects nodes anywhere in a document. For example, //p would select all paragraphs in an XHTML page.
The problem is, people think they have to adapt for non-pc devices (read: mobile). The rub is, the mobile browsers are good.

Build a clean and fast site. You'll be fine.
I tell a similar story for my grandfather, who lived pretty much the same years as your mother. When my grandfather was born, his father's business was a horse changing station for the Madrid-Bilbao stagecoach. Eventually my great-grandfather sent his older kid (my grandfather's brother) to France to study cars at Renault, so he could turn the business into an automobile repair shop and service station. In the 70s my grandfather would fly to the US on a Jumbo jet. From stagecoach to trasatlantic flight in one generation.

Heinlein's novel: I think you are talking of Door Into Summer. It also contained a precursor to the Roomba. It was called something like the Mechanical Maid, but the description is of a vacuum-cleaning creeper.
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I definitely notice the difference in speed between CLI utilities written in C and those in python or ruby.
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As someone who works on search and is a scala fan, I'm super impressed. Next obvious question: how many lines would it take to add some sort of stemming?
If there's anything I can take away from this, if there's anything I can say about GS, it's that they know precisely what and who they are.
From experience, I'd definitely second the 'actual project' part, particularly around breaking it down/picking the right level of project. Ideally you want something that you can pull off in a day or two, then apply what you've learned to the next project, or extend your first project so that it does more.

plug: It's the tack that I took when writing Quick and Easy Python (http://manning.com/briggs/) - small bits, building on each other.
Thanks for the shout! :D
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I know this is probably digressing too far from the topic at hand, but I just want to say that, having used plenty of sites that do display their points, it's refreshing to me that HN doesn't. I think seeing points has the psychological effect of swaying popular opinion one way or the other (the token "hivemind" -- you probably know more or less who I'm referring to).
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I agree completely, and if I implied otherwise, that wasn't my intent at all.

I'm just trying to shed some light that it's not ALL of EA's games, as the headline of the article implies.

There are tools and services in place to allow game teams to implement proper passwords and authentication, and they weren't used in this case.
You can do the same in Python (in about the same amount of lines I suspect). The below is the core of the linked implementation (Vector Space) in 15 lines of Python. All you need is something to build a clean concordance on the search terms/documents, then just compare the terms against the documents and sort based on the return value of relation.

Actually the below implementation is usually the first non trivial thing I try to implement in any language I am learning.

import math

class VectorCompare:
def magnitude(self,concordance):
total = 0
for word,count in concordance.iteritems():
total += count ** 2
return math.sqrt(total)

def relation(self,concordance1, concordance2):
relevance = 0
topvalue = 0
for word, count in concordance1.iteritems():
if concordance2.has_key(word):
topvalue += count * concordance2[word]
return topvalue / (self.magnitude(concordance1) * self.magnitude(concordance2))

EDIT - Was going to fork this on GitHub and make a quick Python port but corporate firewall got in the way.
Correlation doesn't imply causation. How is that still so hard for some people to grasp? His entire argument is invalid because it's based on that simple fallacy.

The selection process will obviously skew any results in favor of colleges. It's the same as trying to argue that playing for the San Francisco Giants automatically makes you better at baseball. Is that really the case, or did they just do a good job of picking players who were already the best?
I would really like to see more Fabric scripts like this available. Thanks for this one.
One of the things that really gets me is the fact that we're now disappointed when we go to a place and they don't have a way for me to open up my nicely designed aluminium computer and just browse the internet with nothing more than a password.

And then further than that, that we're getting to a point where that is beginning to matter less and less thanks to advances in cellular technology. When I stop to think about what we can do with cell phones and their networks it's just mind boggling - from what the cellphone can do, to the fact that you press a button, and suddenly my laptop and my friends are browsing broadband internet sourced through my cellphone (which has a processor core 3 times more powerful than the machine that my dad paid $5000 NZD for in 1998 - which was super top of the line, PII 300, 3d accelerator, video capture and EVERYTHING!).

Proliferation of wireless and cellular technology is just so damn cool.
I'm so sorry about that! It's in the root directory as gmail.py, but i left off the .py part :)

Should redirect now. Sorry again.
Agreed. I'm self-taught and have been working in the industry for 12 years now. The way I got started was that I had a project I needed to do, so I figured out what I needed to know to get it done. The same is true with my iPhone app -- I knew nothing about Objective-C when I started it, and it's 3 years old now. Learning for the sake of learning is fine, but learning how to build something you want to build and really seeing it come to life is a pretty phenomenal way to learn.
Honestly, the externalities of suburban living pale in comparison to the externalities of centralized banking and the military-industrial complex. Lets start cutting gov't funding to multi-billion dollar companies before we start cutting funding to our fellow citizens.

http://www.newwest.net/index.php/city/article/farming_park_a...

Maybe we can start with this and move from there.
interesting experience. for people running personal web business, maybe this is worth trying for some period;
I just started to do something during weekends, hope it can grow big to cover my daily job
Whatever language you choose, consider trying a few problems from http://projecteuler.net. The problems are small enough that you can feel the reward of getting the right answer. I used Python.

As an experienced programmer with math background using a language I knew, a problem took me 15-60 minutes. Not knowing a language or how to program, it might take several hours, but not weeks.
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Very cool. Curious why you didn't use fabric.api.put instead of `run(_write_to(config_file, "/home/%(SERVER_USERNAME)s/nginx.conf" % fabconf))` ?
This article is a very annoying piece of propaganda.

The worst fallacy is the poisoned well ad hominem at the end where he claims that those who advise against college have degrees and therefore are selfish meanie "elitists" who are trying to stomp down the poor collegeless masses and keep them from advancing. It goes without saying that those who haven't been to college likewise are not allowed to advise against it, since they haven't been, how would they know? Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Whether you have been to college or not, you are not allowed to have an opinion or advice others that one should consider carefully whether they want to go into significant debt in return for college. Regarding the fallacy it can easily be turned around to argue that the author is not qualified to argue for college because he has been and therefore has been brainwashed into the cult. Just as absurd an argument and the same reasoning.

He also claims that the average current cost of attending 4 year public colleges in the US is $2000. This is complete nonsense.

As others have pointed out here, the reason degreed people are better plumbers is because they were smarter to begin with, not because they learned plumbing in college.

There was a study a couple years ago (sorry, no citation, can't find it) that compared people who were accepted into college but didn't go to those who were accepted and did go. He found that there was no difference in their earnings. The study showed that earnings differences are not due to "learning advanced skills" or such in college, but due to the fact that people who were already more capable to begin with were the ones that got accepted in the first place. Duh.
In that case, either add the proxy to your hosts file, find the willpower to resist distraction, or establish a system of incentives to stop you from getting distracted (unblock Reddit from your hosts file, then write a program to, for every minute you spend on Reddit, donate a dollar to a charity that you hate).
Experience tells me he's right tho. Here in Denver we actually have that green ribbon. You can easily bike from our very southern suburbs all the way to Downtown (or float if you choose too:>). It's an extensive, safe, and rather awesome system all around.

While it's a heavily used system, outside of the center ring it's mostly for fitness and leisurely bike rides more than anything else. No amount of niceness makes up for the fact that those suburbs are 30 minutes away by car. Most people just don't have two hours to dedicate to their commute.

The fundamental problem isn't that biking isn't pleasant enough, it's that in a far flung suburb and exurb it's just not a practical choice.
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I went to visit the Golden Gate Bridge[0] for the first time a year ago. Standing in Marin county, overlooking the Golden Gate, there is a nice little park with a number of plaques rattling off various tidbits of information. Two items struck me in particular. One, the Golden Gate took four years to complete. And the other, the Golden Gate was completed underbudget. Now, cast your gaze a touch behind and you see the utter failure of the new Bay Bridge. A bridge that is overdue and over budget - and made in China to boot. And this, my friends, is why America is going out of business. When we can not even manufacture the ingredients in our national infrastructure projects it is an absolute shame and travesty.

Here are some choice quotes from the article:

“I don’t think the U.S. fabrication industry could put a project like this together,” Brian A. Petersen, project director for the American Bridge/Fluor Enterprises joint venture, said in a telephone interview. “Most U.S. companies don’t have these types of warehouses, equipment or the cash flow. The Chinese load the ships, and it’s their ships that deliver to our piers.”

And

... they note that with the full financial force of the Chinese government behind its infrastructure companies, the monumental scale of the work, and the prices bid, are hard for private industry elsewhere to beat.

Basically we can not even build these projects anymore. And why? Because the Chinese government, with the help of our enfeebled government, has eroded our capability to do so. The Chinese unfairly financially back bids for projects against private firms. Chinese firms get financing directly from the government at favorable rates that allow them to submit bids that private firms can not match.

I ask you this, if we had to win the next World War, where would the manufacturing for our Liberty Ships and B17's[2] come from? I, for one, do not welcome our Chinese overlords and hope we in America wise up before the final nail is in the coffin.

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gate_Bridge

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_ships

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-17_Flying_Fortress
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I recently made the choice to go from the suburb to urban environment, and while I have to say that personally, it has been way better.

While I do pay more for rent, I do have a more enjoyable day. No commute. Walking distance everywhere of importance. Cool back-drop.

So, the ultimate question then, given what we have, how do we scale this up?
agree to some extent, spending time at home for long days will reduce productivity for me...
Mine are:

"The new password is to be chosen as a combination of alphabetics, digits and special characters. It must be eight characters long and contain one of the special printable characters (eg $ - ! : / = _). Normal alphabetic characters are case sensitive ie "a" is not the same as "A". Special characters may not appear at the beginning or end."
I second the advice about setting up an Ubuntu machine. Windows is unnecessarily painful for development in comparison. Although there are "workarounds" around the problem, you'll find things much easier for development on an Ubuntu or Mac computer.

Now for a language recommendation. I am a Ruby programmer, so I've got a pretty heavy lean towards that.

Ruby is an exceptionally easy language to learn. There's a book called Learn to Program written by Chris Pine (http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/) which is an amazing beginning to getting into Ruby.

Past that, there's the Well-Grounded Rubyist by David A. Black (http://manning.com/black2) which covers all the things from basic Ruby up to medium-advanced levels of Ruby). There's also Programming Ruby 1.9 by the Pragmatic Programmers (http://pragprog.com/titles/ruby3/programming-ruby-1-9)

If you want to brush up your Ruby skills, the Ruby Koans (http://rubykoans.com/) are also pretty good.

If you're looking to get into web development (well, you ARE on the internet!) then I would recommend learning HTML and CSS with a book such as HTML 5 and CSS 3 by Brian Hogan (http://pragprog.com/titles/bhh5/html5-and-css3). Then a good JavaScript book, perhaps something like JavaScript: The good parts (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596517748).

After learning as much of those as you can, familarize yourself with Git by reading the Pro Git book by Scott Chacon (http://progit.org/), or if you choose another version control piece of software (Mercurial, Bazaar are good, SVN isn't and CVS is (I'm pretty sure) the work of demons).

Ah and before I forget, I've got The Developers Code (http://www.thedeveloperscode.com/) bookmarked for late-night reading and I'm quite enjoying it so far. Quite a lot of lessons in there that I have learned over my brief career, but ones I knew from the beginning.

One more final thing: you are new here and people will treat you like that. Be nice to them and they will be plenty nice back. Respect the fact that they have limited patience and may not wish to answer your questions eternally. They may also have other people asking them questions at the same time you are, or have other things they would like to be doing.

You will get better with practice. You show a keen want to learn, which is a great start. Never give it up. Nothing is "too hard" forever. Persist, and for the love of god, practice.
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I sure as hell hope they can't ask for certain positions/characters of my password, as that would imply a non one-way function (ie, hash) applied to the password stored on their servers.

LulzSec has proven why this might be very bad.
This is a head scratcher.

Downtowns, by their nature, are the very epitome of mixed use. They are almost always populated (to some extent), sport shops and restaurants, as well as providing employment. It doesn't get more "mixed use" than that.

Public transit systems are at their most efficient in these environments. In my experience the cities that offer the best mixed use neighborhoods have the best transit systems, if for no other reason than high density, mixed use areas provide the highest economic impetus for transit in the first place.
Disagree strongly. Anyone savvy enough ... has probably no password in his/her gmail at all.
Btw, domain reg info can be searched anyway.

Also, if you got a strong and unique password, and do not login from untrusted devices that may be keylogged, you're quite safe already.
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Yeah, i don't mean to detract from your point. Cleveland has problems, and it needs to find a way to jump start some development.
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Which makes the system essentially moot. That seems like a substantial screw-up.
> If you want to brush up your Ruby skills, the Ruby Koans (http://rubykoans.com/) are also pretty good.

I've been opening Miami Ruby Brigade meetings with these, recommending them to non-pro-Rubyist friends, and did them myself last week. They're a really great exercise.
Bugged me too. I quickly gave up trying to read it.
I agree. Very awesome script and pretty easy to build on top of this, kinda like Chef Recipes.
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How close to work and your favorite play areas do you live? That's what really matters is it not? I'm betting your desire to bike is driven more by proximity first, and bike amenities second.
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White flight and bussing issues certainly played a part. I'd argue that there were forces at work bigger than satisfaction with place.

added on edit:

There's lots of smaller (single-center) towns with a nice downtown, and a crappy strip area elsewhere. In those towns everyone shops in the crappy strip, because they want a nice big grocery store with good prices, and you just don't get that with a local/small grocery store. And businesses that provide real value want to build new buildings, and it's damn hard to build the right building in built-up cores. Maybe resolvable, but it's hard, and regressing to older forms won't do it.

That's right, but not for the reason you state. They shop at the strip-mall because it's probably closer and more convenient to them. That's the issue. A focused, mixed use center is the ideal but it requires neighborhoods to be integrated into it. The problem with modern American planning has been a desire to strictly separate (usually by massive boulevards) uses from each other. Work pods, retail pods, and living pods are all kept strictly apart. That's when the strip mall becomes more convenient. It's easy to park and quick to get to.

However, when you look at cities that do this right (Portland is my go-to example always) then it's a very different picture. They are pushing the concept of "20 minute neighborhoods" with the idea that all of the citizens within Portland will have essential living resource (Grocery Stores and the like) within a 20 minute walk of their house. They are building sidewalks and working to re-engineer neighborhoods to nicely integrate these areas into the actual fabric of the neighborhood.

It's a bold plan, but it reflects what has been very successful in that city. There are neighborhoods in Portland where everyone DOES shop in the city center. Between effective transit and smart planning the relatively small city of Portland has built something really cool. They HAVE grocery stores (large format and with those reasonable prices you mention) within easy walking distance of many peoples homes. Those stores are heavily used.

I think the issue with urbanism is simply that most people don't have the option. It's something we've had to rediscover and recent trends have certainly shown a movement back towards stronger mixed-use neighborhoods in the last decade.
I also agree. I tried reading a book on Objective-C, read the first two chapters, and ditched it for the iPhone SDK. I messed around, and tried making some ideas come to life. It took me a couple months, but eventually I was fluent in Objective-C.
but facebook also has many million users who don't have an iPhone nor android phone yet, who can still use two factor auth (i.e. my girlfriend)