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My opinions are anecdotal at best as well and that's the reality of software development. There's no research that can state that X is better than Y whether it is programming languages, methodologies, architectures, patterns, etc.

I don't deny the reality that people are still writing C/C++ code in the field of embedded devices, games, something that requires fast performance with a very low memory usage. On the other hand, there are a few NoSQL solutions built using Java: HBase, Neo4J, Cassandra.

In some cases, JVM Hotspot optimizes code on-par with C/C++. I don't know much about D performance. If the speed improvement is not night-and-day for projects other than being mentioned above, and if writing readable code is much better in Java, I'm not sure if we should compare C/C++ vs Java. On the other hand, many people seem to come out and say that Ruby is _very_ slow. Is it heaven-and-earth slow?

There are advantages and disadvantages of compiled vs dynamic code when it comes to deployment. It all depends on the tools and ecosystem too sometime.

How is Erlang more scalable than Java? In what area? horizontal vs vertical scaling? developer's productivity (or team performance) scale? performance? speed? Erlang seems to excel in a niche area (in a positive speaking).

What about Haskell/Ada, how are they safer than Java? Do they have better type-systems? handles NULL better than Java? Bulletproof from developers? detect more bugs?

Keep in mind that Java ecosystems have grown and matured a lot since 2004. The tools and libraries are staggering. Most of your concerns are no longer relevant except "eats memory like candy" in most Java desktop apps. Having said that, have you heard about Java ME? that thing runs in mobile devices albeit a different distribution of JVM.

Outdated/abandoned random libraries seem to happen in our neighboring ecosystems: Ruby (and Rails).

I have to admit that sometime other languages are more "fun" to dabble with. I use Python and Ruby. I like Python because I don't have to argue when it comes to code-style. Pythonic (PEP-8) or GTFO. It's not that I hate innovation or artistic coders, it's just that I'm a discipline person. Best practices in most cases, pragmatics when needed, hacks when the world ends tomorrow.

Companies chose Java for varieties of reasons and yes, one of them is the available pool of talents. I'm sure we all have heard the old phrase "enterprise developers". Some of them are bad, while others are quite sharp when it comes to the typical enterprise stack. Some of them can design systems/libraries quite well. Spring Framework comes to mind. Google Guice, Google Guava, Android are next (yep, crazybob used to do EJB and enterprise Java stuff yet he's one of the sharpest Java dude I've known).

I noticed that some of the well-run enterprise systems do have a better infrastructure planning thus forcing people involved around it to know better when it comes to certain technology choices. I'm sure there are web startups out there that just keep on hacking PHP code and use MySQL without having plans for backups, recoveries, etc.

Of course these are anecdotal experiences of mine.
"They believe that economics cannot be mathematically or statistically modeled"

It can be modeled, the models just won't be predictive when applied to reality because it's impossible to control for variables in such a complex system. Mathematics and statistics can be used effectively in economic analysis, but the majority of what's produced (and that our government uses for guidance) succumbs to correlation/causation fallacies.

Economics is not science. It's theory. Economic theories are not testable. Trying to give one's work the impression of credibility through misapplied scientific language and methods is called pseudoscience, and its purpose is to mislead.
Hey, glad you like it! I mostly just want to use it for things like newsletters or Twitter follows ...

"- Under Chrome 12, the text in the sidebar changes my cursor to indicate that it's a link or otherwise clickable, but clicking it does nothing. The only places where you use cursor:pointer are in skin_mockup.css, so that might be the culprit."

This was actually a problem in all browsers - sorted now.

"- You don't have an example of what the digest looks like - what does it reduce messages into? I thought that one of the things in the sidebar might have been a link to a page with more details, but nope."

Here you go: http://emaildigest.me/sample_digest.png I've also added that sample in a link at the top of the page.

"- Why only gmail? Shouldn't it work with any service that allows forwarding of messages? Or do other email providers have their own verification step that you haven't added support for yet?"

I just haven't tested it with anything other than gmail. For all I know it'll "just work". I do know that, where I have my email forwarded from, say, iain@workingsoftware.com.au to iaindooley@gmail.com from my mail server, the "from" address isn't being processed correctly (that's on my to do list).

I don't know enough about the email RFC to know if what I've written is going to work across the board.
Um, MWI is not QM. MWI is an elegant way of explaining the results of QM just as 6000 years ago God was an elegant way of explaining creation. It is interesting to think about but without proof of any kind it has little value.

Think about the implications of a real MWI. Real universes are not cheap, an apparently infinite supply is extremely ridiculous.
If I were running a tor server as public service, I would be deleting all prior files, and deleting all logs as they are created. I would do this because I would expect at some point, LE might come in and confiscate the machines.

It's been amusing to see those lyrics get voted up or down, I am guessing it's had at about 10 up votes, and currently about 11 down votes.

It's always interesting to compare HN and SO with /. and similar sites. We don't do humor here, and downvote anyone that tries.
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I am a bit confused - by private sector, are you referring to corporations as in public vs private sector. Or are you referring to people outside of the government as in households?

Further, isn't the discussion about removing tax breaks, which were given out with the expectation that they would expire before today. - Someone correct me if I am wrong and there is some other clause on the table.

While yes fixing the tax situation would by definition be taking money out of the private sector, it is not the entire picture - the money was never supposed to be there in the first place.
Won't it just be the same as last time, i.e. they will be extended? Why should it be any different?
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interesting because it models the likelihood someone is going to reject a suggested person after the first few didn't work out.
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So we are in agreement. Anyways can mean different things, but it is better to face the (and I have -$100T NPV accounting) -$44T crisis earlier than later, what with the baby boomers still working. My only point is that at least this brought the looming debt problems to the forefront of Americans mind, albeit at a undesirable outcome. If this crisis had actually resulted in real cuts now and real tax increases now it would have softened the blow in the long term.
Varies a lot by country and by community/programming language/kind of job.
Today's markets don't operate 24/7 (they close at night for instance), and yet everyone uses them because they have no choice. Limiting HFT can happen through regulation.
You're 20. Working as an intern for a social networking company. I am sure life seems ideal to you, working on only modern technologies and being able to ignore things that are not perfect.

Outside of this sheltered life, you will have to be able to deal with people asking you to do things you would rather not do. Might as well accept it, instead of writing a blog post every time it happens.
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How is that relevant to my comment? The point is that Americans are voting against their self interest, not because of values, but because of ignorance.
I wasn't really flying the flag for Module#mix, just intrigued as to the pattern of things making it into head and then either making it out into tagged releases (or not).

That said, I confess I was a fan of mix, but it might be in my favor for things to get more complicated sometimes.. ;-)
"By 2025, CBO projections show that our total tax revenue will be entirely absorbed by interest payments and entitlements."

That sounds worse than it is. Entitlement programs are major component of the budget. (The other is defense.) The real argument here is about what's going to take the fall for the last 10 years of wars, tax cuts, and bailouts. Will we choose to stop doing wars, tax cuts, and bailouts? Or cut entitlements instead? It looks like the bipartisan consensus is to go ahead and stay with the war/tax cut/bailout plan and shed social programs to pay for them.

If we as voters don't like that, it looks like our only option is to replace the officials in the legislative and executive branches in 2012 and try to roll back.
But the funny part is, that $ would not be spent in america. Why would you when the more efficient outlays of capital, and most likely growth areas, are in other countries?

Given 1) Free flows of liquidity. 2) Alternative higher growth areas and economies

Why wouldn't corporations take every penny and put them where they would get the most return? Because of some patriotic duty?
Doesn't after hours trading still occur, especially if some significant news is revealed?
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Edit: And an explanatory blog post is at http://corbinsimpson.com/entry/summertime for those readers not well-versed in Twisted.
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I can easily conceive of it. Where else are you going to put it? Europe? The interest rates are set at auction, and if the stock market is really sour, and European bonds are less attractive, capital will pour into US bonds no matter what these ratings clowns say. (Aren't these the same folks that brought us AAA rating for MBSs less than five years ago, BTW?)
No, there are methods and settings that can be set via code that cannot be set via the XML, and vice-versa - I'm not talking about mixing them together. Yes, they are the same classes. No, they are not created and instantiated and configured in exactly the same fashion; there are occasionally differences.
IE6, and the browser war age, is the reason why I totally despise everything that has to do with Javascript, CSS and other browser shit. It was a nightmare, literally.

In 2000/1, we engineered a large online system (ported from Tandem to Solaris) to assume the browser is totally fucking dumb (ie, process as much as you can server-side, with eg, get/xsl servers) and only spit out a bit of JS when you're absolutely sure it's possible to do so.

Maybe my JS fear is outdated now, but I can still hear the monkeys.
Adobe makes money from its Flash editing tools, so they probably do not care if Flash is replaced with HTML5 as long as their editing tools for HTML5 become the standard. In fact, Adobe may even be relieved that it looks like they may be able to drop Flash as a primary platform soon, because they obviously have difficult maintaining the plugin.

There's still an opening for Adobe to make themselves the standard HTML5 IDE (as they are the standard photography "IDE") and still reap as much money as they were making from Flash, but without the overhead of maintaining the runtime.
Education is a significant part of the discretionary budget (the part that can be cut).
Since Dan mentioned that Amazon Mechanical Turk is being used to do the reviews, as a founder it may be useful to know what the demographics of such users are:

http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-demog...
While i love Squares concept I wonder how they would handle international growth, i see that as being very difficult. But maybe they dont even need that.

In most of Europe (im from GER) most people dont even have credit cards. I have also never ever seen someone pay for something like a coffee with a credit card here, to me that sounds absurd
forget about compatibility when it comes to playing an audio file in html 5
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I think that's only a myth to those that gravitate toward the Bay Area. Former Magellan fund manager Peter Lynch wrote that he liked companies based around Cleveland because half the US population fell within a 500 mile radius of it. The key point being that general entrepreneurship occurs in highly populated areas, which facilitates growth and expansion.
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>policeman-speak is still well-known for being unnecessarily verbose

Policeman-speak is closer to lawyer-speak because police spend a lot of time writing reports that are subject to cross examination in court. Police and lawyers must communicate clearly (in legal-speak) despite any difference in class.
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Considering so many use IE6 at work and so few at home, 2% of visits != 2% of the population in any meaningful way. So the question is more like: how important is it for my application that users at big corporations with outdated software can still use my app while at work instead of just at home?
Heh yeah...

We had a DOS client program for one of our services, written in abouts 1985, and we had to support that one until 2-3 years ago, when the single one user in our country (the single one user globally for that matter) retired.

So remember when you put funny comments in your software: it lives longer than you expect.
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Hey thanks a lot for this that's actually really helpful for me. I'll probably end up posting some of that somewhere on the site. Good stuff man.
One thing strikes me as really odd: how naive do you have to be to leave documents and valuables in an unsecured place and then let complete strangers use your apartment?
Points of interest to me:

- distrust of Pakistan runs high

- the article is almost coy about how OBL's safehouse was so close to a military academy and the contacts with another group tightly linked to ISI; this says to me the sources did not want to discuss anything more than was already public. (And do keep in mind that this sort of article is usually a tissue of deliberate leaks, so what is not said is almost as interesting as what is said. If one were particularly cynical, one might read this into the general downplaying of the downed chopper, the one major flaw of the operation.)

- the Pakistani retaliation with the newspapers was very interesting indeed

- the dumping-the-body-at-sea thing had precedent! I had not known that. The Saudi refusal to take the body was also interesting, but in line with the general public/private dichotomy of their behavior.

- the bombing suggestion would have been... interesting. All things considered, the SEAL team does seem like a better idea.
Even NMCI, the most bloated, antiquated, over-funded network on the planet doesn't use IE6 anymore. Just quit it.
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Unfortunately that's not the case.

The footer of the mail lists the associate ID which is identical to the ID for which I've turned of the mails.
Ironically, with those small details I'll be able to spend even less time doing mundane tasks on my OS. :)
It's important to keep in mind that when push comes to shove that Adobe isn't afraid to eat their own — as someone who had a shop focused on Director and Lingo I watched then adopt Flash and really shift gears overnight even though they invested a great deal in Shockwave. I'll grant you that was a long tome ago, but they still may have the will to adopt in their DNA...
Huh? I have no idea how to answer. I "use" Reader but almost EXCLUSIVELY as a syncing service for my subscriptions, which I only read using dedicated, native RSS reader apps (Hello, Reeder [sic]!)
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Transfer pricing of intellectual property is at the core of this. Read the Bloomberg article and check out the interactive graphic. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/google-2-4-rate-sho...
Obviously either my maths or my facts are wrong here because I'm being killed with the downvotes.

Explain where I went wrong please?
Mmmm, the actual amount isn't all that relevant to the argument. But as far as "comfortable living" goes, the average $90,000 salary in Silicon Valley, minus the high California tax burden, does not provide "comfortable living" when a run down 3 bedroom home costs on average $860,000, vastly above the ability of said $90,000 wage earner to afford. It barely provides sustenance living. This is why many of these average paid developers have 3-4 hour commutes from far away, and others are living packed 5 to a room, and few are able to attract a mate.

This is completely a different topic from the discussion though so I'd prefer not to continue with it, if you would like to, it would be best to start a new thread.

Developers in many other parts of the country can live comfortably with an average wage. But watch out if you get sick. Sickness is for the rich. As we found out last month, if you are a long term employee at Microsoft and you get brain cancer, they give you a bad review and then declare you ineligible for disability benefits. Shouldn't have gotten cancer!

My idea of comfortable living is you can afford a house, to marry, and to afford health care. Others may disagree, but I don't consider that to be even worth debating.
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Progress?

Why do some graybeards feel this sadistic need to make juniors learn pointless stuff (which archaic legacy support kludges for buggy browsers certainly are)? Please note that you may have spent better part of the last 10 years slowly learning about these workarounds, while making your own mistakes.

This is the most pointless type of elitism I have ever seen. Why not use the new advanced knowledge, this kids have? Some of them kids know more of how standards work than most graybeards. Pushing new fresh minds down the madhouse hallway that IE6 is, seems like a moral hazard to me. They might get the wrong idea.

Or are we going to demand that people write their own compilers and languages, before they even start doing productive work?

Mentality like this, wastes customers money all around while contributing nothing to the business or society at large.
And you can keep the employees in line. They're supposed to be disposable and, ideally, outsource-able. Business journalism makes money reminding employees how powerless they are, and that they are too old and too genetically disadvantaged to emulate the mythical irreplaceable entrepreneurs.
Interesting.let me clarify my case. What I have seen so far is that most developers around want to ship 3 products a year for 3 different industries. They are all over the place. Cannot commit to solving a specific problem for a specific industry for an extended period of time.

So my thinking is maybe if the guys are passionate about the problem/ industry and not just interested in learning to do a lot of stuff, we would have a better shot at succeeding.

Correct me if there is a flaw in my understanding.
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https://github.com/nvie/gitflow works really well. The original post http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/ was really compelling, and using it has really helped, at least what I do.
IE6 support is not pointless if your target market includes banks and large corporates which are still using IE6.
After a few years you find out it's not that hard to support it. Prefer padding instead of margins, be careful with floats, use overflow:hidden to clear blocks, add a sprinkle of zoom:1, and it's done. It won't look exactly the same, but don't sweat it - it just needs to work.

But thank god I usually don't need to do any of this anymore :)