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Have you looked at "The Joy of Clojure"? I thought the authors did a very good job of showing why exactly they're so excited to be working with the language.

In any case, this is very much a question of discourse. For historical reasons Lisp (at least Common Lisp) seems to have this reputation of being associated with deadly serious people, or alternatively smug lisp weenies, while Ruby people talk about how happy it makes them feel all the time, even though there are plenty of people who clearly have fun with Lisp (even "crufty" "old" CL), and I'm sure many people would regard working with Ruby a chore. I mean, to each his own, I honestly can't imagine there's an objective scale on which CL (much less exciting new languages like Clojure) is "less fun" than Ruby. Things like homoiconicity, on the other, are objective criteria for comparing languages. There are plenty of reasons to like (say) Python better than (say) CL, but to say that homoiconicity or restarts or MOP are no big deal because if you try hard enough you can replicate 95% of that functionality in (say) Perl is a different question entirely.
Not gonna judge his skills or resume. But, I'm sure that he'll get a call from Google. Only very few guys can do anything like this. What if Google rejects? Will any other employer be able to work with him then?
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People might think coders are a bit self-important if we start analogising our project's as cities rather than buildings.

Maybe some projects are more building innovation centres, that later go on to be used within actual buildings, and some don't get used.
It's not quite as ironic when you consider that the old code was written largely by the same people who decided to rewrite it. They've potentially already reached the end, since they realized that what they wrote was unintelligible. All depends on how you interpret it, really. :shrugs:
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For gods sake, its a parody.
I agree with the position that it depends, code may be a building, or a city or any number of things.

I disagree with the OP that deciding to recode can simply be compared to tearing down and making a new building for no reason. That's oversimplification.

First, there are times when buildings must be demolished and built from scratch. The OP makes this idea seem ridiculous but it happens everyday when buildings are in fact demolished and rightly so. Second, fewer buildings are demolished and built from scratch relative to programming projects demolished and built from scratch due to the inherent differences between a coding project and a building project. For one, the former is more regulated and carries more physical risk than the latter(a coding project).
I don't agree. Interviewing and employment are vital for any start-up company. And those reverse applications certainly have some ideas that enrich that field.
Exactly what I was trying to say, but in a much better way.

Programming as such is more like an art than an engineering discipline. Writing a complex application is more like writing a novel. Try adding authors to a late or failing novel and see what happens.

Besides, I thought that the whole programmers as resources thing was debunked in the mythical man month book.

I blame all of this on the "software engineering" movement. The discipline, if used properly, is fine. But calling people resources seem to me like skipping over the important points of the discipline and focusing on the wrong things.
I use a stack of old business cards. I write on the back, and then I can shuffle, add notes, discard, etc. Cards from a week ago get reviewed, culled, and some things then get transcribed into a notebook or a wiki.

I tend to work on longer term projects on a wiki, but the ideas and fleeting thoughts go on the backs of business cards.
I would quote a sentence from your own profile: "Those who are afraid to make fools of themselves are fools already." :)
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My first thought before even reading the article was: http://www.bufferbloat.net/

Good to see someone else commented about it.
Tangentely.

I tried carrying a small notebook around, but it didn't really work.
For household 'work' I write a todo list once a week.
At the moment, I just start a new todo list everyday on paper as I sit down in the morning.
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780470122136

You must have not read the article if you think HaXe is boring.
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I personally took part in the public consultations and workshops that formed the basis of the Hargreaves Report and was genuinely surprised not only by the committees detailed understanding of the issues involves (I learned a lot), but also their genuine openness to discuss new and controversial ideas.

However, I have close links with the Carbon trust and understand all too well how reports such as these are paid lip service by the government, and to a large degree used to force through unpopular and even corrupt legislation with tenuous links to original issue for political points or monetary gain for individual MPs.

Take for example the Carbon Trusts recommendation that old refrigerators posed a significant environmental risk. The trust put forward the idea that people should no longer be able to dump their old refrigerators along with regular waste, but should instead send their refrigerators to dedicated recycling centres where they could be properly dismantled. The Labour government took that idea, but failed to follow through on the dismantling process, so we ended up with fridge mountains up and down the UK, causing more environmental damage than the old system of just chucking them where ever you wanted to. Not only did this score some serious political votes with environmentalists, but a lot of money changed hands in the process of creating this new "infrastructure"

So it is with a cautious mindset that I approach the governments acceptance of the Hargreaves report. And there are a couple of things I think we need to be careful of, but most importantly, we need to keep a very close eye on this...

Point 4: A digital copyright exchange will facilitate copyright licensing and realise the growth potential of creative industries

We have to be careful that this doesn't open the door to a new kind of patent troll. If the government puts this out to the private sector (which they probably will), we could find ourselves lumbered with an Intellectual Ventures style monster who didn't even have to buy the original patents in the first place. It's a guaranteed certainty that someone out there is looking at the notion of a Digital Copyright Exchange from the point of view of making an absolute killing, and given the UK governments willingness to grant unreasonable favours to the private sector over the past 20 years, this has to be a very serious concern. Nothing that follows point 4 in the governments response is legally binding.

I'm not saying a DCE is a bad idea, I think it's a great idea, but it needs to be a not for profit venture, ideally controlled by the state. The second the people responsible for running the DCE start making profit, the game is up.
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This is interesting. You could also add things like geolocation, matching a la okcupido and other.
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Oh look! there is a little note: "Do not use if you need an infinite loop not to stop."
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That Apple is also a patent troll. They threaten Android, which is a haven for indie developers.
I would recommend "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" <http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/>;

This book is a classic in Computer Science and it explains, discusses various programming concepts ... mainly from the compiler/interpreter point of view.
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WSJ paywall.

Google search on "amazon's battle with sales tax" shows that several media outlets have published articles with this title. So, wsj, what's so valuable about yours?

Until someone can provide an enticing tl;dr from behind the paywall (and indicating a significant addition to the years of analysis that already occurred about this phenomenon), I'll be declining to contribute to Rupert's NewsCorp.
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*correction: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/
Truly bizarre. A straight up clone of the entire service, no detail too small to be copied. Id hoped to find that the developers had tried something new with the format. I'd love to see a similar service where everyone in the room somehow collaborates on the playlist rather than requiring 5 people to take turns picking one song.
Give them time - I will admit that they do seem to be doing an unexpectedly decent job so far, but even New Labour seemed to be decent enough in their first couple of years.

Edit: Maybe what we need is a limit on the number of years a PM can serve for?
So, am I the only one here who feels like this is an obvious (and funny) parody? Or are all the "serious" comments critiquing the video/website/C.V. just another level of irony?
Nope, more like 2 petabytes plus 1 bit. Because almost all of that new top 8m is the same atom (empty air), if they are using an octree to store the voxels, then it would take 1 extra bit to store an empty top 8m. Obviously if there are things in the top 8m, it will take more space, but only for the things that are there.
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Given the privacy and anonymity issues and that they suspended my account for not giving a real name I am done with them and wish them only the worst...in fact I'm reconsidering using their services at all and already use scroogle should I need a Google based search.
As a marketer, I feel exactly the same.
Previous submissions and discussions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2832669 : A few comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2835383 : >100 comments

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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2836424

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2837948 : >40 comments

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There are few books on the list that I don't know of, it's pretty interesting to know about them... Thanks for sharing that.

Do you know about "Structure and Interpretation of Coputer Programs" ... IT'S A CLASSIC!
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I have this pet theory that coalition is always going to be the way forward for the UK. All the mainstream parties have some pretty good ideas, with a few pieces of radical idiocy on the edges. In coalition, parties can drop the radical bullshit parts, while implementing all the sensible ideas they have.
Ah, the "German Copy/Paste" move taken to perfection (http://techcrunch.com/2007/05/14/web-2-in-germany-copy-paste...). IMHO, there is not shame in being inspired by other services or products and to copy features, but blatantly copying someone straight up feels dishonest.
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To sum it up, it seems like it's a step in the right direction.

IPO's response to each 10 points:
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I would recommend you check this online book: http://htdp.org/

"How to Design Programs" is a great resource for newcommers and professionals alike. It's a good revision and a good start.

Enjoy.
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I've written several games in Haxe, which are cross platform. See:

http://www.bigblockgames.com/games/supergoblin/

and

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/super-goblin-war-machine/id43...

...and there's a Windows and Mac build as well.

I don't know the author, and only used it because it had built up quite a community already. The discussion groups have 16 topics active within the last 24 hours.

Haxe is a very solid language, similar to javascript, but with strong typing plus type inference. More than acceptable to use day to day.

The compiler outputs Flash files, Neko VM (its own VM, used for servers), Javascript and C++ in a rock solid way. I can count the number of times a bug in the C++ output caused it to not compile on one hand, and I've never had a logic error, where the C++ compiled but caused an inconsistent result. Java and other backends are in their infancy, but they're coming.

The author makes many popular web games in Haxe, and uniquely, the client side javascript, server side multiplayer, web framework and Flash files all come from the same code base. The power of that is incredible.

Most importantly, the entire language, runtime, C++ output etc is all open source. It's not for everybody, but it's a great language for those that need the features it provides.

To dismiss it like you are is frankly kind of insulting. If you aren't interested, that's fine, 95%+ of the people on Hacker News won't be. Move along, or cogently criticize it, but there's no need to be flippant. It's in no way a silver bullet, but it does bring something unique to the table, and to me that deserves respect.
"Past performance has very little correlation to future actions and those thinking otherwise are using a very simple thinking shortcut."

Maybe I am using a 'thinking shortcut', but can you please source the evidence for there not being a correlation between past performance and future performance?
So how is the state space then much smaller than modern memory limits? That still ignores my second point, namely that the logical reasoning that the xyzzyz somehow implied that programs that have state spaces smaller than modern memory limits are in practice analyzeable for halting/not halting, is not sound.

I can tell you now that your code terminates. The set s is strictly increasing in size, inevitably going towards an OOM condition if the loop doesn't terminate by other means. Note that we are talking about determining halting or not halting, not with which value the program halts.

This is not a troll. You tried to respond with something witty. I just pointed out that in this case things like the collatz conjecture don't apply, because it is a conjecture over all natural numbers. When you are working with finite memory, there is no way to encode this conjecture into a program (e.g. by making it halt if the conjecture is true and making it loop when the conjecture is false).
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As far as I know employee protection law, at least in the UK, doesn't like these post-contractual obligations. I would ask a lawyer specialising in employment law for confirmation but it is my understanding that you are under no obligation whatsoever to sign this and should they ever do anything that detriments future employment you would have grounds to sue.
Or maybe not: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2011/07/a-galaxy-on-earth.html. Who knows.
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I think it did bite off more than it could chew in the beginning, but it's really coming together these days. You can link in with third party libraries just fine, though only by calling a Haxe like external interface functions, so you'd probably write your jquery in separate files.

It's no silver bullet, and I'd probably still agree with your assessment of using tools designed for the job - my web stack is Django + hand written javascript/jquery + node.js for multiplayer.

But I think it's well worth checking out for the news.yc crowd. I believe something similar will eventually win out - being able to write every part of a stack in the same language - but that language is probably destined to be Javascript.
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We used IPython's parallel processing features at (first (take-right jobs 2)) for load testing. One machine would run ipcluster and people who were not doing CPU or network intensive tasks would fire up ipengine that connected to the ipcluster box.

By doing that they would volunteer their machines to the cluster pounding away at the big server that was being tested.

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It's pretty common for banks to implement their own hashtables, the standard ones often make trade-offs that aren't the best choice for high-performance.

For example with Java library hash tables if you have a high insert/removal rate you can end up with frequent GCs.

Another common example is to do with synchronization code, unless your synchronization requirements are exactly those provided by the library then the overhead added by the synchronization code can have a significant performance impact.
Simple example are many famous artists. They used to be considered quacks, people who are a waste of canvas, but ended up being very influental and quite an important part of our culture.

Or take a look at music bands. First few albums are smashing hits, then suddenly, no more takers. Everything they create is simply not accepted by the fans. The mojo is gone.

Perhaps startups are a bit less fragile, or I just don't know enough history, but I think similar patterns emerge if you look widely enough.

edit: actually, We Live In Public (movie) could be a good example. Josh Harris had a really really successful first venture, after the web1.0 crash, nothing he tried doing really caught on and became something. At the end of the movie about him, he's hiding from creditors in africa or something.
Really interesting. I wonder how these would have fared on Windows (Windows having a different threading system to pthreads)?
Whilst I agree that the DCE could be a disaster if applied to patents, I think they are very explicitly aiming that at the copyright problem, which is very different.

I also don't think the DCE can or should avoid aiming to make a profit. On the contrary, the only way to get a decent DCE in place will be to have multiple players competing in the space, which seems to be both the Hargreaves report's and the government's view.

Effectively, what we're talking about is a kind of iTunes-like marketplace for automated, mass licencing of copyrighted works, to make the process straightforward, transparent, predictable, etc. I don't see how preventing those from making a profit would help.
We did something of the sort for a hack day project (warning: completely hacked) -- https://github.com/samliu/wsoh

Building your own turntable.fm is surprisingly simple when you use NowJS. Oh also sorry my code hardcodes a few urls (e.g the nowjs library to my server in the index), I haven't gotten around to making the repo code clean for a real release.
Sure, it is. But Push Pop got a ton of publicity partly because of Al Gore and partly because of Mike's passionate Ted talk, so I presume they would have been able to get more than enough funding. And of course you can't change the world if someone does it before you.

Anyway, the folks at Push Pop Press, as well as Sofa and the rest of top tier design talent that Facebook have been eating up, are smart bunch and I'm sure they know what and why are they doing. Or it could be the allure of a metric buttload of money.
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I concur that it is interesting. I mostly wondered why it didn't catch on since it's been available for so long already. Also, for certain niches, like simpler games, it is probably a great solution since you can create it once and then publish / sell it on multiple platforms.

I'm also pretty sure that someday Ruby or Java or Javascript or Python will evolve into something which runs on almost any platform. Already, you can compile Java to Javascript, Python to Javascript, and so on. Especialy the LLVM is going to allow for way more inter-language swizzling.
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Would it be a good decision for a company to replace a RubyOnRails development environment with haXe??
Agreed. Some of the specifics made me stand up and pay attention, e.g.:

"It appears that Amazon wants to be the one controlling the price of my product. As it seems, they would be able to simply define any price for the product, and change it at any time they want, without asking me about this."

Got it now in my permanent file of links on Amazon practices.
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