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In context, I think it means the former. Not having the context available, your interpretation of the remarks at hand might make more sense.

However, a motif of Rand's is to moralize about capitalism and individuality. One of the themes, of which I think the current quote is an example, is that people have been trained to feel bad about their selfish impulses. Rand viewed the laws of her time as an outgrowth of the "evil" of altruism. As such, their "power" comes not just from being enforced, but from being held out as altruistic norms and carrying the moral weight that goes beyond their mere enforcement. As ludicrous as that sounds, I think I disagree with you and find it even more ludicrous that the antagonist actually wants to incarcerate people. To what end?

Also, the antagonist explicitly disavows that he want the laws obeyed, and also that they are even meaningful. He's trying to get people to live in fear.
The more I learn about Scala, the less interested I become.
And it is up to each individual to elect when to assert them. That's another one of our rights.
Perl is awesome for it's one-liner abilities, but you still have to dance around the shell quoting issues, which can vary from shell to shell. Remembering exactly what needs to be escaped and how can get sufficiently tedious to just put the script into a file instead.

That said, there are some nice constructs such as:

q(some string); # same as a single-quoted string
qq(another $string); # double-quoted string.
qx(); # backticks, or $() in bash.
The flip side of that metaphor, though, is that most of us go to lots of parties without necessarily taking the same identity with us to each party. Further, using people's legal names (if this fiasco demonstrates anything, it's that the concept of a "real" name is kind of a crock) doesn't guarantee better interactions - at the Facebook party I run into objectionable relatives all the time, but it's not really my party and I can't kick them out.
Exceptions are interesting. The calls are asynchronous so you can't wrap the whole macro in a single try/catch. See node's wiki for an explanation on why this is a problem:

https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Async-exception-handling

Node encourages people to create functions like:

function(err, x) {
if(err) handle(err);
}

This way they avoid the whole async + try/catch problem. It should be possible to define a macro that does something similar.

Avoiding that trap, individual try/catch statements still work fine:

(timeout/timeout-macro
(pn "Hello")
(try*
(pn (throw "Throwing up"))
(catch e (pn (str "There was an error: " e))))
(pn "World"))
Great insight on this. It tends to hold true for many social aspects. It's something that I take into account when I get rejected or the talk can't go beyond any certain subject/topic because it's nothing personal. The certain wavelength or timing when you met causes the talk to never reach that long-lasting depth.
I think when people are around each other, there's a lot of future at stake. You don't want to mess up, and cause any drama 'cause it can bite you in the future. When you stop being around with that person, whether it's because you moved, or quit jobs, etc, you stop caring so much about nurturing that relationship.
I interviewed there for a Product Manager position, and it was by far the most technical interview I've ever had, and like the OP said, featured a lot of computer science type questions. I know very few product managers that would have done even as poorly as I did (I have a cs degree, but its been a while since I've really used it). If I could have changed anything, I would have loved to have been told that I would be asked CS questions in the interview.
The Andersons are two of the hundreds of thousands of Americans to be charged and convicted in recent decades under federal criminal laws—as opposed to state or local laws—as the federal justice system has dramatically expanded its authority and reach.

"Who could have predicted that breaking into people's voicemail was going to cause such a fuss?"
> this prevents flame wars and all sorts of other noise

I don't think this has been proven. In fact, I think if you look at real world locales like bars and clubs, you see the exact opposite.
Friend to me is where two people can have rapport about one or more subjects. If I talk to someone about basketball and only basketball, then that's a friend to me.

Good comment in bringing up that everyone has their own interpretation and standards to what a friend is.
Yes - it seems to have been there because it was a standard typewriter character, which forces the question, why was it a standard typewriter character?
It's C, for heaven's sake. ;) Compared to any dynamic / memory-safe language in history. Oh, I don't know--Perl, Python, Ruby, Javascript, Lisp, Haskell, oh, and Java, I s'pose.
The policy that they are enforcing is that you must use your legal name, leading many people to the obvious conclusion that the policy is bullshit.
Huge success using the Hackers Diet (counting calories) here. Its online weight tracker is tops. Walker made the book available as an ePub earlier this year: perfect for the iPad.

http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/
You've brought up good points. More and more exposure when it comes to work and school can benefit real life relationships as well.

However, when I've met people online, I don't connect with them really well until the 2nd attempt.
(I give people 2 chances).

When you're in real life and it's just a stranger that passes by, you never get that potential second chance.
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Genuine question: what is the appeal here?

I write iOS apps for a living, and appreciate what Objective-C and (especially) Cocoa have to offer, but why would anyone choose to use Objective-C when there are so many other great alternatives available?

To consider just one example of the pain Objective-C developers like me have to deal with on a daily basis, why would I want to write:

NSDictionary *d =
[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
[NSNumber numberWithInteger:1], @"foo",
[NSNumber numberWithInteger:2], @"bar", nil];

when most other mainstream web programming languages allow me to write something like:

d = { "foo" => 1, "bar" => 2 }
You can do a lot of things in a weekend. I think the author fails to see the difference between a weekend project and a viable business product.

I see a weekend project as something exploratory, to show your friends, get cred. A viable business product will surely take longer than a weekend to develop.
It's the same amount of filtering like the other reply.

It comes down to wanting social interactions without having to go through that small talk stuff that most people need to go through in real life.

I also do volunteer my time as well. Although I do understand concern for making the best use of one's time.
I only messaged people whom I felt there was potential.

The same filtering applies though because you can attend things where there aren't many people you could relate to or you can only relate with that one particular interest and nothing else.
Why I downvoted you (redux): starchy would-be HN exceptionalism and undergraduate pomposity ("we're so much better than Reddit, ...").

The grandparent post was a bit overheated, but not exactly an out-of-control polemic. Much of what he wrote is literally true. It might be "improved" by pumping it up with a pile of "of course, there are many points of view here" and "other companies also do bad things" and "let's remember all the awesome things that Google has done". But so what?

Your rewriting actually removes content. He is not "afraid that Google will start to monitor and try to control its users and content too closely". He's saying it's already happened.

What you're asking is that instead of concisely putting forth their point of view posters puff up what they're writing with pompous polysyllabic mini-essays on Every Goddamn Thing, with copious footnotes, links, etc. Same biases, more tl;dr.

Forcing everyone to furnish "pragmatic alternatives" is also another great way of turning every concise 4-line statement into a tedious mini-essay. It's actually OK to be against something without necessarily having to lay out an 8-step plan to substitute for it...

Finally, ad-hominem name-calling can be fun and brightens up everyone's day, as long as it's not bullying. The guy isn't exactly going to ruin Brin/Page/Schmidt's days by taking a swing at the goog, now, is he?
I don't get it. The unit "calorie" already takes the different compositions of the food into account. It's simply a measure of how much energy a typical person's body will extract from that specific food.

A sugar calorie is completely different from a edamame calorie, but their end result regarding weight loss will be the same.

You'll feel completely different from both calories, but your scale won't.
Protecting intellectual property and fostering innovation clearly serves a role in the global economy. However, it's not clear the patent system is structured in the optimal way for an agile world in 2011 driven by the web and software. Perhaps a separate system needs to exist for software and the web versus industries of traditionally high capital expenditures (e.g., pharma, manufacturing).
I'd hire that guy.
It looks more obviously "language feature" in Perl, Python, and JavaScript, though:

my ($foo, $bar) = f;
(foo, bar) = f()
var [foo, bar] = f();
It’s inevitable that the founder will retire. So who takes over then?
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Can't wait till this async issue get solved in CoffeeScript. To me it's currently the biggest weakness in the JS family, especially given how much we all rely on the event-based style of programming in this language.
> Yes, there is, to the extent that that rule is legitimate. Usually, just powers arise from the consent of the governed. For example, sane people pay taxes because they understand that they have need of the canonical services of roads, fire service, police, the military, and the like.

It is Randians who think that civilization is the only free lunch.
So does => quote the lhs, like Perl? Otherwise, what's the point?
Some of the samples are compelling and beautiful. I'm annoyed they are not clickable.

But the rest is kind of "meh". Like I've never heard a talented, intelligent professional whine before about this type thing. My advice: Put some of that intelligence towards learning how to better market yourself or some such so you make better money and have less to kvetch about.
People aren't all that different, and generally want the same things. Besides, the US isn't that much freer than its first-world contemporaries. For example, although we in Australia don't have constitutionally-protected freedom of speech, the Press Freedom Index puts us as having more freedom of public speech than in the US, and both of us are well below most of the northern European states.

http://en.rsf.org/press-freedom-index-2010,1034.html

The word "freedom" occurs much more frequently in American political discourse, but that does not mean that Americans are automatically freer than anywhere else. I find it hard to believe that those extra freedoms that Americans do have (which most don't seem to exercise in day-to-day life) is sufficient to cause a fivefold increase in per capita prison population.
You are totally wrong about that, most of my musicians friends use there stage names, and recently I've been working in big media and all the journalists and writers use fake names as well. Quite common for high visibility people to do this.

Facebook seems total fine with it (or turns a blind eye) as long as its actually you (and not a troll account).

I used a nick name myself as I wanted to see if any spam started heading my way with that name. None so far, been using Facebook since it went public. Never a peep out of them.
I'm not sure what you're thinking of in particular, but I'm guessing that most talk about cybernetics in modern philosophy is derived from Heidegger's claim that in modernity, we lose any an ultimate referent for our chains of signification. Everything gets taken as for the sake of something else (e.g. as a resource to achieve some ends extrinsic to it), but there is no final "something else" to make it all meaningful. The reason he calls this "cybernetic" is because it deals with unending loops instead of the sort of hierarchical organization we might have seen in pre-modern times (e.g. with God at the top of the tree of meaning).

Philosophy often attempts to dip below accepted meanings and systems of thought. This may make it seem like philosophers "have no understanding of the technology they're trying to discuss", but in fact they aren't necessarily discussing technology in the sense which one might assume. They're trying to get at a completely different strata of thought than the "how-to" of any given technology.
Peewee is a great library. I hacked away on mysql support in my own fork of it earlier this year, so I am really happy to see mysql support is official now. Keep up the great work Charles!
Scala:

forever { features append randomFeature }

It's also OK to write this with parens. Maybe. I can't really tell.
Relative runtime speed or compatibility with an existing Objective-C code base that you want to easily call from your web app are two possibilities that spring to mind.

This isn't to say that conciseness of expression isn't a useful attribute, but I don't think it's so utterly critical to web development that the any tool suited for the job must provide such things as concise dictionary syntax.

You use the best tool for the situation, and I can at least conceive of situations in which I might care about the benefits that come with using Objective-C et al more than I care about how verbose dictionary initialization is.
http://is.gd/KivR1p

http://is.gd/8cIKKs

Difference? I see none.
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Yeah, I totally thought of "morning pages"! I came across that idea a couple years ago.

I have always written a lot, but I never did it as religiously as morning pages. I wrote a wiki in 2004 where I keep all my thoughts/notes -- it's about 1000 wiki pages now (probably 2000 without deletions). Before that I kept a diary but it wasn't really for "ideas", more "complaints" :)

Right now I feel like I have enough ideas and it's about execution... but I do think there is something valid to the approach.

It's also similar to what happens when you write down your dreams first thing in the morning (or even during the night if you wake up after them). I tried this when I was 15. My mind was blown.

I started remembering 7 or 8 dreams a night. I would go to sleep for 50 minutes and it would feel like I experienced 8 hours of time in my dream. It was really disorienting (and interesting). I don't remember but I think it took about 2 weeks of writing before that happened.

So this is another example of writing changing your brain. Your brain wants an audience (or more accurately, your subconscious does, and the subconscious is where ideas are generated). If you write down your dreams, you'll start having/remembering more of them. If you write down more ideas, your brain will generate more of them and follow more associations.
What if all laws (except for the Constitution) automatically sunsets after a period of time, say, 20 years?

The job of the legislation is to create laws, by definition. So is it any wonder we end up with an accumulation of laws, some outdated? With an automatic sunset of all laws, this keeps the legislation busy without burdening us with an accumulation of outdated laws.

If it's really important, let the law be renewed after twenty years.
You'd have failed, because they aren't talking about HTML entities or whatever.
Love it or hate it, CoreData came directly from WebObjects' Enterprise Objects framework.

http://developer.apple.com/legacy/mac/library/documentation/...
I'd be fine with any of the examples you gave, actually. I think as long as they "kinda seem" like they could be real names and are properly capitalized, my craving for consistency is satisfied.
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An edgy package for conservative, second-rate work. Not surprised you can't click on the thumbs.
The biggest thing I learned in Philosophy, is how not to skip steps. Even the most mundane thing can have a ton of interesting questions hiding inside it. The best way to not skip steps is to train your mind to be in a state of perpetually acknowledging your ignorance. This is hard to do, and I wouldn't consider myself great at it, but the fact that I've identified this as a goal is something I credit to some of the professors I worked with there, Mark Hinchliff in particular.
I don't think you should feel any regrets. I was just thinking, it's just a very hypothetical, but suppose that Steve Jobs was going through the same hiring process for product manager, would he have fared better than you? I doubt it, why would a product manager have to know CS algorithms. Maybe stats algorithms/functions, but CS algorithms?
I always assumed a weekend project was just something you worked on in your free time, typically, your weekend.

So imho, weekend projects are not necessarily wrapped up in a 2 day stint.
you're assuming that cases don't exist where you won't reuse something. this is a false assumption, e.g. if all I wanted was the creation date of a file: stat("filepath")[7] is a reasonable way to do this in php, but you can't currently.
For the real world, focus on the Three C's:

"Conversation-friendliness: Your main tool of contact and communication is your voice. So ask yourself whether a particular venue is suitable for carrying on a conversation. Quieter places are generally better. Loud clubs and bars generally are not, but sometimes their quieter patios or balconies can work. Bookstores and coffee shops are much better.

Community: There is pre-existing rapport when some common thread of interest connects a group together. The more specific the thread and the greater effort people have made to come to the venue, the stronger the rapport, and the easier time you will have making contact. Talking to people watching a game at a bar is likely to be a fleeting interaction, whereas the people you meet at a conference in Buenos Aires on emperor penguins may become lifelong friends.

Continuity: Stationary people are easier to meet than those in motion. The longer people tend to stay at a given venue, the easier it is to meet them. Continuity can also develop over longer periods of time. There is built-in familiarity with someone whom you see three times a week at the gym which makes it easier to meet her."

http://taoofdating.com/sample1.php
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Objective-C's incredibly verbose syntax for array and hash manipulation is my number one pain point with the language. A little syntactic sugar would go a long way here.
Someone's down-voted you without explanation, which is rather poor form. Entities in this case means extracting the text of the page - with nokogiri for example, or a variant of readability to get just the article - and then extracting things that are named in that text.

I used a modded version of readability and a simple entity extractor in python on the article and got: 'Sudoku', 'Search', 'Google', 'SRE', 'Stanford', 'Freebase', 'OpenCalais', 'SWE', 'Metaweb', 'MIT', 'Wrong', 'HTML', 'Developer Relations', 'Interest', 'DON', 'True', 'CPU'.

A great introduction to all this is the O'Reilly book Natural Language Processing with Python (free online[1]).

[1]http://www.nltk.org/book
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That sounds fine, and what I would expect too. However, being tagged in one photo in an album shouldn't be enough to be suddenly allowed access to view every photo in the album regardless of privacy settings on that album.

Disclaimer: I have not tested whether or not this actually happens, so I'm taking the original article (and its comments) by their word. I do find it irritating though that anyone can apparently see the action of me tagging myself in a photo in my stream, regardless of the privacy settings of that photo.
Reducing laws means reducing the bureaucracy supporting their enforcement. This is a powerful counter-incentive. This would never be discussed in public, but will induce lots of rationalizations.

Example: When Prohibition of alcohol ended, the regulating agency faced serious reductions in staff. Funny, severe restrictions on firearms (NFA) were enacted right about the same time - and guess which body was assigned oversight and enforcement?
But that sort of problem only comes up when you accelerate. If you maintain a frame of reference then you can handle things far more gracefully.

A shared reference frame over two points billions of light years apart can be established. You simply keep the distance between these points roughly constant, which holds the velocity of all points roughly constant, which keeps calculations of simultaneity roughly constant across the whole region.

I can then state that in the combined earth/reservoir plusorminus .01c reference frame that the water is already gone. And this is factually true. You still have to wait for information to propagate but everything works out. The timing has no disputes between any members subscribing to this reference frame.

Relativity doesn't cause major problems until you deal with matter moving at high relative speeds.

P.S. I'm deliberately ignoring the expansion of space in this argument.
I agree... including time spent learning doesn't make much sense to me, though I agree with the writer's point that the "real" time is much greater than a weekend.

We built v0.1 of http://queued.at in 36 hours of coding at Dallas startup weekend. Certainly each of the people working on the project spent a LOT more time honing the skills used to create the application, but from the first lines of code to launch was only 36 hours.
I would have thought the easiest way to land a job at google these days would be to start a blog, become a 'thought leader', start a few important open source projects, etc, that kind of thing.
I passed the software engineering intern interview process but wasn't matched with a host (I assume because I applied late). I then reapplied for the fall and am back at the host matching stage.

I have lots of high-quality programming experience, a MS from Stanford, and am now wrapping up a PhD. 4.0/4.0 GPA.

If you work at Google and want a fall intern who will work his ass off for you, please email me: stevebanders@gmail.com (not my real name - will reply with my real name - don't want it associated with this post :)

My recruiter recently indicated that I should try to reach out to Googlers as it might help draw attention to my application.

Edit: For the past two years I have been building search interfaces and programming tools. However, I'm flexible - happy to work on just about anything!
What about email? None of the GMail alternatives seem comparable.
I had a one such really bad interview with google - I'm pretty sure the interviewer was not a Google engineer, though she claimed to be (weird).

Here's the interview:

http://www.mkrecny.com/entry/7/
Maybe, just maybe, a really really talented designer can get away sounding that cocky, but I doubt they would.

Taste is subjective, but this is my area of expertise and I'd say he's middle of the road, so his attitude comes across as plain old arrogance to me.

I also think that web designers should be able to code, but that's a whole other debate.
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I like the attitude. Should resonate with the type of client he is looking to get. At least then he avoids working with people who are too uptight for him to get along with.
Agreed with ForrestN. I don't see anything special about this. That guy is not a designer himself. He just mere know how to use the tools yet he thinks so.