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I can relate to this on one level. I love my job and work crazy hours, but I struggle with burnout regularly, and often need to disengage from work for periods of time in order to recuperate. On the other hand, I am not sure I agree with the 'harmonious passion' argument. I would argue that people with 'harmonious passion' are simply less passionate about their work than the 'obsessives', which allows them to 'turn off the switch' so to speak.

As a side note, it is probably fairly difficult if not impossible to objectively measure passion, so I guess it is pretty pointless to debate any of this in the first place.
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This is why programmers need project managers... to shield them from human interactions which you otherwise aggravate them unnecessarily :D

Seriously, I have no problem with this. More then that, I would really really like to hear more management called this way. It should be much more ingrained in the culture that management, even more than programmers, is a "resource", and exists to provide services to the working class and to make its life easier.

For entrepreneurs it's not an unusual mindset to think that the owner is the one who empties the wastebasket, but I very much doubt this is common in the corporate world. It should be, not because emptying wastebaskets is a worthwhile thing to do, but because it encourages the ideology that management is there to pave the way between the people who work and what they have to do.
Is there a torrent of these icons, maintaing the metadata?

I don't really want to tax their servers at the moment.
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Honestly? It's the things you think are beyond criticism that most need to be criticized.

(and especially SICP, which inspires such a dogmatic belief in its advocates that it really ought to just be considered a religious text at this point)
curious that this is the top rated comment. Seems a lot of people have had this experience. It's a shame that you joined a startup with no direction. Give the scene another try. There are entrepreneurs who know what they're doing.
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By how much? When I switched to Chrome, Firefox 3 would crash on me at least once every 6 hours of use (10+ times a week), and take 15+ minutes to reopen with ~150 tabs.

Chrome on the other hand has always handled 300+ tabs without blinking. Closing and restarting it with that load takes about 20s to be usable and a couple minutes for all the content to be loaded — basically limited only by my internet connection. It crashes about one every three months, ironically only when I tell it to quit.

Firefox would have to now be three orders of magnitude better in these respects in order to have caught up with Chrome.

P.S. Mozilla's messaging with "try version 7 or 8" is fucking abysmal. Seriously shut the fuck up about version numbers if you're going to increment them so often. Don't copy Chrome's development cycle without also copying their release structure: normal, dev, canary.
Trucking something 1000 miles is silly. One large canal boat can transport about 70 truckloads (4x3x6 containers). Average speed over 1000 miles is the same since they don't stop for breaks. Works great in Northern Europe. You still need trucks for the fine grained distribution of course, but over time all large companies make sure they are located on a canal.

Digging canals is very expensive of course but they don't hurt the environment nearly as much as (rail)roads and it's a text book way to get the economy going. Many of the canals in Europe were actually dug during the depression of the last century when there was lots of unemployment.
Well.. I work for a large international IT-consulting corporation at a client site. I go to work at 8 AM and leave around 4 PM. So this makes.. umm.. 40 hours per week. During normal 8 hour office day I usually attend meetings for around 1-2 hours, chat around with fellow consultants and client personnel for 2-3 hours, solve client issues alone or with colleagues for 1-3 hours. For the rest of the day I drink coffee and read HN + other web sites.

Yes - I feel sometimes that my job is somewhat boring and that I should be doing something more "activating" but I:
- get reasonable salary
- do my job very well
- have great work/life balance

So maybe there is not so much to complain.
There clearly is a market for patents at the moment because large numbers of them have been changing hands, often with multiple bidders.
Is it really covert? In the case of the Nortel bids, the bidders were getting government approval before bidding, and it was made public after the fact who was in the groups.

I'm not sure that removing anonymity from bidders is a good thing or not. I mean, if you know who the other bidders are, that would affect your strategy, removing some purity from the auction process, wouldn't it?

But, maybe you feel I'm sidestepping your real issue, so let me make another point:
In any situation where companies might collude like this, they're effectively creating a cartel. Say, in the case of the employee salaries that you mention.

The problem with a cartel is that there is always an incentive for a member of the cartel to violate the agreement. For instance, if MSFT, Apple, Facebook and Google agreed to cap software developer salaries, then Google (or one of the others) has an incentive to secretly violate that agreement to get the best employees, right?

Pretty soon the cartel falls apart, or the agreement has no effect. The stronger the agreement, the more incentive there is to violate it.

Further, imagine if they were successful and kept salaries below a market rate-- this would give a huge boost to any of their competitors who were willing to pay market rates, right?

They'd only be shooting themselves in the foot by doing so, driving the best employees to other companies.

This is why cartels don't really work, or at least aren't sustainable for very long.
The US government is a big thing, they can do two things at once. In no way does going after these guys proclude them from also going after other instances of child abuse.

Additionally, I have a bit of a problem with the way you turn this rather horrifying story around to make you (and internet users in general) seem the victim. This is not the place.
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When I started to study programming, one of the languages we used was a dialect of Lisp. It didn't make much sense to me at the time because it only allowed me to do boring things, not cool things. Programming only started to make sense when we switched to C, I did some simple tasks first, then paired off with a classmate and we implemented a simple raytracer for a summer project. Graphics is neat.

So I'm skeptical of the idea that programming education needs to be even more hardcore than Scheme and we need to use a lazy functional language instead. I think the right way to teach programming is to give students a simple procedural language (perhaps not even OO) that makes the computer do cool things, like graphics or webpages. The ones who are curious for more hardcore stuff can always discover it afterward, like I did.
;-) nice. this is how people learn to wear the careful gloves if they have to do things as root, or when sudoing.
The only reason to not team up with Microsoft, et. al, is if google wanted to use the patents against them. If google simply wanted to be immune to claims from the Novell patents, they could have joined the group and saved money (vs. bidding by themselves against the group.)

Further, you make two assertions here:
"MS teamed up with Google's competitors to bully them with bullshit patents. "

You haven't shown that MSFT has bullied google, nor that the patents are "bullshit".

If the patents are bogus, they would be easy to dispatch in court with prior art.
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I've only looked at the top 50 on that list so far, but it looks like only 20 are self-made entrepreneurs outside finance (13 in tech, 7 in other areas). 30 made their money either through inheritance or finance, or some combination (like inheritance+investment).
You mean "should your URL be flashcarte.net or www.flashcarte.net?"

I personally prefer without "www" but there seem to remain some question if that is advisable. There are apparently some hosting issues which may preference "www" (or at least something).
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Do the emails have an unsubscribe link or any instructions on how to be removed from the list?

Is the receipt of such emails unbearable? If so, maybe delete them as they come in. Or set up a filter.
I think Ayman al-Zawahiri would have something a little more strongly worded than "Jews pride themselves on being able to find good deals" ...
The search is on the front page. Where it says search, click it. It's not immediately obvious though
I do the same, good man.
I think you're making some huge leaps of imagination there. It seems your starting with the assumption that laws can only introduce red tape and slow things down. While this is certainly possible, it's not inherent. It is absolutely possible to draft rules, or policies in such a way as to reduce red tape. Take for example Van Halen's policy on M&Ms

http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/vanhalen.asp

While not in the political sphere, it demonstrates perfectly how a well thought out policy can reduce complexity while still delivering results.

Any attempt to argue that this has no bearing in a political context serves only to illustrate a complete and utter lack of imagination. Once people know the M&M trick, it becomes useless... but M&M's are one example of that technique. Next time, it could be Alphabet Spaghetti with all the A letters removed.

Also, what new training would be needed in order to work with modern browsers? People who need training on how to use a modern browser require training of a completely different sort. Since when did "borderline-retarded" become our baseline?

Accessibility laws here in the UK have actually made development easier as it has created an environment where developers have a much bigger input in the design process as they can cast an expert eye over concepts and raise concerns at a very early stage. This isn't about removing features, it's about building features that work properly.

Nor is it reasonable to class IE8 as a modern browser. IE9 is almost there, but I don't think IE can be classed as "modern" until IE10.

Nor do you understand me right. I don't want to shift my time time burden onto anyone, I want to do more in the time I have. IT departments make the call on what browsers their users can use, so it's reasonable to shift some of the support burden onto them.

Any talk of "internal systems" that depend on ActiveX and the like demonstrate a lack of investment in technology. Why should we (the human race) be anchored to the past by people who are unwilling to invest in the future, despite reaping the benefits of other peoples investments. It stinks to me. Browsers are free. Modern browsers are easier to support. modern browsers are more secure. Modern browsers increase productivity. Modern browsers have low system requirements. There's no real excuse for not using them.

But lets carry on as we are. It's been working crap so far, but let's soldier on at a snails pace. With any luck, we'll be able to stop supporting IE7 sometime around the point we all retire. And heaven forbid we explore any new angles on how to push things forward, even if it's just out of pure interest, because that's wrong... apparently.
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I don't know. How about you make a suggestion?

The original comment was about exploring a concept, yet it seems to have been dismissed completely out of hand without even a moments thought. Im genuinely disappointed with the complete lack of imagination.
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Yes, and I followed the instructions last time. I even went to their web site and double checked that the option not to receive emails was already set.

They've sent me another one anyway.

And no, they're not unbearable. I'm just pissed off and angry that they can so flagrantly ignore a customer's wishes and not get spanked for it. And I don't have a choice as to where to go, because they have a monopoly.
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See chapter 1.3 of SICP. It talks about the motivation and usage of higher order abstractions in general, and also about fold specifically, which they call 'accumulate'.
I can't get used to Gnome, can't get used to KDE4 (and while we're at it - also not to Windows 7). Maybe because I grew up with older Desktop Environments, but nothing even comes close to KDE 3.5.10 for me. Since I updated to Debian Squeeze which no longer used KDE 3.5 I've stopped being happy when working on my system :-( I'll have to check-out Trinity at some time, I'm just a little worried if that project has the man-power to really keep KDE 3.5 alive.
I hoped for some interesting read, instead the article could be summed up in 3 sentences:

Python, Ruby and Scriptol were created by starting with ergonomic study and user survery. Java, C# and Scala by repeating old habits of some programmers. The syntax of latter three languages sucks - it's full of cryptic symbols, including semicolons, and it's based on C which doesn't make sense today.

Ok, so what is this user survey? In some ways it is the same as repeating habits of people - when you are doing a survery people will tend to vote for habits they have from programming languages they use. Even my friends who are just CS students (so shouldn't have bad habits from years of coding in the industry and seem to have more theoretical approach) are afraid of languages that resemble Java too little. I'm not saying this can't be done correctly, I think that this article simply lacks of content on methodology of gathering ideas for new PL and doesn't answer the question in the title. It would also cool to read what scriptol's authors did to make the language suit users' needs better.

Also as far as I know scala and javascript has the same attitude towards semi colons - they are no obligatory. I'd say that scala has more 'new' ideas than Go and JS [1]

[1] think pattern matching, actors - I know they are not actually new, but it seems to me that scala can become 'most mainstream' among languages that implement such features
It's funny that you say this, because prior to the adoption of fiat money systems, class-warfare leaders agitated for decades (centuries, even?) in favor of a system of fiat money, because they saw fiat money as a way to reduce wealth inequality. The logic goes like this:

1: In general, poor people borrow money from rich people. Interest payments on these loans is a transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich: an increase in debt inequality.

2: Fiat money is much more subject to inflation than commodity money.

3: When inflation occurs, the real value of debts is reduced.

4: By adopting fiat money and the accompanying continuous inflation, a situation would be created whereby poor people could borrow money from the rich, use it to create wealth for themselves, and then effectively pay back less than they had borrowed.

I'm not saying they were right, I'm just describing their ideas. I find the whole situation ironic.
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>So, the only reason for Google to refuse to talk about joining the group to bid on the Novell patents would be if google was planning to use them against the group, if it won them.

I can think of at least one other reason: they saw the group bid as a potential violation of anti-trust law, and didn't want to engage in illegal (and/or unethical) behavior.
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Better solution to Etag and cache-based tracking in general would be to change browser cache from:

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to

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This way you don't need to block all 3rd party requests and caching will still work reasonably well for each site.
Just checking that I've got this correct: you set the 'Hyper is mapped to Win keys' option in the keyboard config, you set GNOME 3 to use 'Super' to activate the overlay, then re-configure your other shortcuts to use 'Hyper' instead of 'Super' (or 'Mod4')?
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As well as market segmentation, customers might be more likely to purchase if they get a little thrill of accomplishment with getting a discount.
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Agreed. Inflation amounts to stealing from people with savings.

I haven't read the book you linked to yet but I just wanted to chime in and reference another great little book "How and economy grows and why it crashes" by Peter & Andrew Schiff. It's an extremely readable cartoon book that explains recent American economic history in a comic fashion and shows the differences between keynesian and austrian thinking on the subject.
That is true.

There was a lot of programming language research in the 1970's and 1980's that is not really used in mainstream programming languages in these days.

A good collection of this material can be found in Simon Peyton-Jones' book "The implementation of functional programming languages". Probably out of print (my uni library has one), but freely available on the net, here's the link:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers...

It's worth to note that since the Miranda days, Haskell has added type classes that can do some OO-style stuff and more, a sensible and efficient solution for IO that also works well in parallel and a kick-ass compiler and run time system.
Thanks.

It was interesting to see how strong my expectations are for what a search box looks like that I will simply not see something right in front of me if it breaks the established conventions.

Also: putting it on the front page only doesn't help.
Never heard of the modifier key, but it sounds like a stupid idea. How are you supposed to discover that magic key?

I think the point of UIs is to make documentation superfluous. If I have to read about that key in the docs, the UI has failed.
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In my current job I work four days a week, with one in the office and the rest from home. When initially advertised it was a five day, 9-5 in the office job.

Both before and during the interview I made it clear that I was looking for a job where I could work remotely (I'd have a 2 hour commute each way otherwise). It turned out they thought I was the best person for the job, and they were willing to be flexible on exactly where I worked so long as I was in the office for the team meeting on a Monday morning. Getting a day off a week was a pleasant side effect of them not having enough money to pay for me full time, and me deciding I'd rather have more free time then more money.

In summary the key factor in getting a remote job is to make it very clear that it's part of your terms. If the company really wants you they'll be flexible. If not, there are plenty of other jobs out there for a good developer at the moment.
>there may be warnings on the product pages [about regional availability]* IF you are logged in while browsing,*

This is the right way to do it. How're they supposed to know where you're from, where you'll be buying, if you're not logged in. The alternative appears to be to ask every visitor to give their location before you show them anything.
Thanks for that link. Unknowingly I did exactly the same thing (we invented a non-existant island in the geography of the site I was working on).
From Google's blog post:

They’re doing this by banding together to acquire Novell’s old patents (the “CPTN” group including Microsoft and Apple

These are the patents Microsoft is referring to.

Yes, the Nortel patents are possibly more dangerous and the prime motivation for their blog post, but Google called out Microsoft on this set of Novel patents, and one cannot blame them for responding.
Apparently when Steve Jobs announced they would be opening up FaceTime as a standard it was the first the development team had heard of it which might explain the delay.

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I understand the reasoning that the fed & equivalents in other countries are supposed to manage the money supply as a smoothing function in booms and busts. I have never managed to accept though that the decision making of a committee can outperform the decision making of the market itself.
In a document-oriented switcher, the icon is the application, while the window is an open document (for a relaxed definition of 'document' when speaking about a terminal).

So clicking on the application icon will present the user with all documents opened by this application, hence will raise all of its windows, while modifier+clicking will create a new document.
America is exceptional, just read the founding documents, there's been nothing like the American experiment in liberty before or since. That freedom resulted in unprecedented prosperity and innovation. The Tea Party movement seeks to restore that, and their plan of budget austerity is the only path forward. The other way-- profligate spending and stimulus-- is the path that Japan took and it failed.
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