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Why don't you make this a proper poll?

http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll
Lucas was a leading developer at mog.com from the early days and more of a Ruby hacker at the time.
That's quite a bit of an exaggeration in this case. Look at the simple syntax for OOP or default argument values. That's a lot of cruft removed compared to Lua. The less you need to read the better, as long as it's readable.
And their Hybrid Assistive Limb is called "HAL".

I would be surprised if they did not have some system named "Skynet".
Fake. We already had this discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2867296
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> I know this is totally not the right place to ask this, ...

You might want to ask your question at a right place instead.
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I am based off India. I am a Ruby and Rails hacker and a good one in that. I have published a couple of open source gems and have been programming professionally for over 10 years. I have worked with a wide variety of programming languages like Java, C#, Python and Rails. I have been a champion of open source right from the early days of my career. I have worked with corporates and have also run my own consulting business. I am a language geek and pride myself on the ability to pick up a new language/technology in a matter of weeks. I write technical blogs and conduct Rails workshops in my city. I am quite active in local technology forums and give talks on technologies such as Rails, Backbone.js, Node.js, MongoDB and whatever is in vogue and catches my fancy.

I would like to move to the US and work in the valley for a funded and promising startup. There seems to be a lot of action in the valley around startups and technology in general. I feel that I am missing out on all the action sitting in India.

I know that I have been intentionally vague and have used a temporary profile to post this. I wanted an honest feedback on the feasibility of finding a job in the valley as an Indian and the realities of moving there. I have read a whole bunch of articles and posts on the immigration woes. I wanted to know if there are any startups who have successfully employed Indians and have had them move to the valley. Also I wanted to find out if any immigrant Indians who have had experience moving to the valley and working for a startup. I know that the other route is to work for some soulless three letter indian company and have the H1B sponsored. But I cannot put up with their bureaucracy and I most definitely do not want to work for a bank.
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The industry is in a nascent state with respect to ruby and python clouds. Competition is always good.
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You don't need money to create jobs. I'll give you a scenario:

Imagine Mark and Adison, two neighbors. Both are living happily and have 10 hours a day of free time. Mark can plant trees, while Adison can do house decoration. Both of them are idle. Both of them are jobless. Why? Because Mark can't plant trees, he doesn't have a land. Adison had already done decoration for his home.

One day Adison comes to Mark and suggests that he does home decoration for him. In return, Mark will plant some trees for Adison. Trees are like a long term investment for Adison and house decoration is an improvement in the living standard of Mark. Now both of them are working full time. No money is required.

For the economy, the living standard of the population had increased. Did we require money? No!

So what's wrong? It's not about the money. We need to enthusiast people with a fair, free and open system and they'll start working.
What a cool idea! :)
Why isn't taxing enough to fund basic government services immoral too?

EDIT: And how do you define 'basic'?
> Some of us send over a million emails a week as a free service to users who are happy to hear from us.

I find that very hard to believe, but probably I'm just missing the point. What kind of service are you talking about?
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I would be careful sending any of these posters emails. Suppose they are working for the law firm and trying to get evidence against you. Do not underestimate the vileness of lawyers and their tactics.
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Do you ever send out mass marketing through the mail? Or have you ever received spam? They tell you not to click on any links in a spam email because it could expose you to harm. In the same way, I expect that replying to this threat would do more harm than good. CLEARLY, they don't have 10,000 lawyers working for them, and yet they've probably sent out that many notifications. So, clearly they cannot actually make good on all of those threats. I could be wrong, I suppose.
If this were somebody's toy or research language, I wouldn't be complaining, but when a language is clearly being marketed as something people would want to use in the real world, I expect it to be based on real evidence and real experience, not just somebody playing around.
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If we assume old browsers won't have new versions and newer browsers will be getting closer to the standard then I don't think you need to keep updating your code. Old simple CSS code usually works great on newer versions.
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I wonder why you got OCaml involved... from my experience, OCaml is one of the cleanest languages known, sure there are a few special symbols and operators, like :=, :: and +., but there are relatively few, so you just learn them like you would in any other language (e.g. C has ?:, == and ++).

Sure, OCaml allows you to specify new operators, but the rules are pretty simple, and you cannot arbitrarily fuck up the syntax.
I'm sure your attorneys were just giddy when you contacted them, but I wonder if it would have been better just to ignore this.
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That could be displayed to every new member's first comments whenever text.lenght < 20 or something like that.
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Very cool. I confess I'm not likely to use it anytime soon, since I am conversant with how Lua works today and not so much with Coffeescript, but I'm glad for the aid to adoption!
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The word 'black' wasn't mentioned in the parent comment, which makes your reply rather jarring...
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I've tried. I get crickets. I should have posted that in my comment.
"The standard sized joints that NIDA hands out for research are 0.7 grams."

Really? That seems like a lot. I was a sporadic recreational smoker about 15 years ago, we bought marihuana one gram at a time and that gram would last us a weekend. Maybe the difference is in THC content; I bought in the Netherlands where quality is generally high and THC concentrations relatively high in higher-end varieties, from what I understand (I don't have experience with foreign varieties to compare it with). Then again, our usage customs are different from elsewhere in the world, too; we rolled joints out of tobacco and only sprinkled on some marihuana. When I told that to Americans they'd look at me as if I was crazy.
The first thing I do is click on the 'Lua' link.
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Really?
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We haven't used the heating at home since May or so and probably won't until September/October.
by CS I mean CoffeeScript, sorry about ambiguity
The TomTom app has done this for a while -- historic data = 'IQ Routes', live data = 'Traffic'. The live data is by subscription, but not that dear.
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Studies show that becoming criminal has nothing to do with race or background. It has to do with lack of social control from families, neighborhoods and governments.

So I think you are right but it doesn't have anything to do with being black.

Don't blame people for calling you a racist because words like "(almost entirely black)" are setting the tone of your article.
> It's as boring as having a resident Marxist posting the party-line Marxist take on any given economic problem, and has the same sanctimonious tone that claims to have the economy figured out, but without empirical data to back it up.

Before making any such broad assumptions please do read some of the Austrians and, why not, even Marx? First of all, like any true Marxist would be first to tell you, there is no "true Marxist".

The reason being that people are still in doubt, was Marx preaching for a sudden proletarian revolution (so, no support for the bourgeois economy and social doctrines, and under this light Keynes is as far from Marxism as Adam Smith himself), or for a gradual improvement of the workers' living conditions, followed by a voluntary surrender of power by the bourgeois middle-class to the lumpen-proletariat? Nobody knows.

And don't get me started on what socialist believes might have convinced Lenin that the capitalist-looking NEP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Economic_Policy) was an acceptable thing in order to support the proletarian revolution.
After pointing out that people who pay off their entire balance each month (or don't use credit at all) avoid interest and fees, I don't see why he then had to go on and on about "Why it Pays to be a Deadbeat". Surely it's pretty obvious, even without all the other nonsense tricks, even if they were lovely people who would never change your interest rate, etc etc.... it would still obviously be better not to be paying any interest at all.
How? It is entirely possible to be technically easier to self-charge than change the fundamental efficiency of LCD.
This looks very promising. Congrats on the launch.

I am enjoying this wave of new programming languages that compile down to existing ones in a human readable way. They are pleasant to write and read and yet performant and don't require a special runtime, making them easy to integrate anywhere in their parent language.

I hope someone talented will build one of these for C/C++. Mobile an game developers could use it.
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That would be neat. But it's essentially impossible with a traditional LCD screen - the physics don't work that way.

The way a backlit LCD works is that the backlight produces light, which goes straight into a polarizer. That polarizer absorbs 50% of the light energy - if it absorbed any less, then the light wouldn't be polarized. Then the light passes through the liquid crystal element to another polarizer, which either passes the light through or blocks it completely.

If you assume that half the screen is lit at any given time, it's physically impossible to not absorb 75% of the light in the polarizer. There are really only two ways to improve this, one is to produce polarized light directly, and the other is to return the lost energy to the device some other way (as this does).
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I must be, but here's how I remember it (bearing in mind that memory is faulty).

A few years ago I took a unit in my comp sci degree, "Programming Paradigms". The language used for teaching was F#, which is heavily inspired by OCaml. At one point we were given readings on OCaml programs and a particular operator popped up -- something like "is subtype of", I fail to recall exactly -- and it looked like :>? or :?> or similar.

I bitched loudly in the unit forum about this operator, whereupon the professor politely informed me that he, in fact, had invented that little bit of syntax when he was a PhD student at INRIA.

He didn't flunk me! Dr Rowan Davies, still the most scary-smart computer scientist I've met.
"there is no claim you can make about PHP that can’t be made about C as well, and vice versa."

What about hundreds or thousands of inconsistently named built-in functions?

C doesn't really have built-in functions, just a standard library that you don't have to load if you don't like it.
Wikipedia says St Louis had 353k inhabitants; how can a city of that size not have grocery store? Not all of them could be eating out every single meal? Or is this for some specific definition of 'grocery store'?
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I use mine mainly to play imports. My Wii games are split roughly evenly between PAL, US and Japanese. Although I doubt my use case is actually that common.

I don't think I own enough Wii games (around 20 just now) to justify buying an external drive for ripping purposes, and I can't really see that changing.
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Yes, declaration is necessary, but not in the htmlspecialchars() call if you're using ASCII-superset encoding (and you really should declare UTF-8, never UTF-7).
> "Nearing production," in the tech world, is even looser of a phrase than in Hollywood

Ooh, burn.
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Depends a lot on what role you're looking to fill.

There's very little meaningful strategy/business work that can be moved to a new hire. Most very young companies still have terrible development practices, which makes it hard to quickly plug in a new technical hire.

I think there are three possible ways it might work.

1) You're willing to act as an executive assistant, doing whatever crap work comes up (market research, building slide decks, arranging meetings, filtering email, buying lunch) in return for exposure

2) They see you as a strong potential future hire and are thus willing to invest in training you up for 1-2 months as a sort of extended job interview.

3) They have a non-critical, self-contained side project you can come in and completely own. Examples include wireframing/designing a new site or feature, beginning a real content marketing strategy, understanding & documenting existing code & processes, etc.

#2 is the best for you, since you'll get "real" work. #3 is good, but I've seen teams give something which is a little bit too optional and then never integrate the final result, making it a worthless portfolio piece. #1 is the most boring and you'll probably have to switch companies after the stint to be considered a "real" team member, but it's probably the easiest to get into and would be a chance to trial the startup experience in general.
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Facebook? Reddit? StackOverflow? There are more than enough free high-volume-email services.
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Lua isn't programmer friendly?
There are situations when even full information leads to failure. Tragedy of the commons (overgrazing) is the most known example.

Another less known one is as follows: assume two routes from A to B, where one is shorter (say, 1 hour when not congested) but prone to congestion and the other one longer - say 2 hours regardless of traffic.

The selfish decision is to take the shorter route as long as its congestion hasn't slowed it down to the level of the longer route. So the "anarchy" equilibrium leads to everybody spending 2 hours.

A benevolent dictator (or enlightened citizens able to come up with a social contract) could of course come with a better solution - every day choose a limited number(#) of people who can choose the shorter road without congesting it.

(#) The optimal number obviously depends on the exact characteristic of the dependency between the number of people choosing the road and the latency generated. This just a model after all.
I don't know about Khan Academy, but a video of the rotations would definitely be cool.
Dig a hole and fill it up. Our economy is saved!

What the government needs to get better at is extract money from the economy in a way that creates, rather than destroys economic value. This is what almost every business does, why can't the government?
5 years, 10 years... It's okay for me: whenever I see old people hobbling along as a I race past them to catch my train, I pray that exoskeletons hit the mass market before my legs stop working.
Where did you get that this is being marketed for production? Did you just assume that because the site looks nice?

Handy tip: languages that are marketed for use in the real world tend to advertise actual uses in the real world.
The query "is:unread -in:inbox" will find all the unread email that's filtered out of your inbox. It might not answer this question though -- Gmail may still report the total as "hundreds" or "thousands".
I wonder the same about how SAP employees book time off... It can't be with their own software. E.g. I can't see the holiday calendar and how many days I have remaining on the same screen. I can't open them in different tabs because of the way it does session management, it will break horribly. You would think that they would get this bit right at least, just for their own sanity!
There's high variation in quality amongst third-party modules, but the "modern" python community takes documentation quite seriously, there's even a complete site dedicated to nothing but hosting compiled documentation[0]. Projects like Django, Flask, SQLAlchemy or Flask have rather good documentation sets.

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Wow, i've asked this before, http://www.reddit.com/r/coffeescript/comments/hmtjv/what_abo...

Really happy to see some action!
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My first web language was PHP, I started working with it 12 years ago. Back then you didn't have Rails, Django, ORM, unit testing (in web dev that is), and javascript was looked as a language to just show popups and have confirm()'s before submitting forms.

If you wanted to connect to a MySQL, you have to do it all by yourself, you need to create a database, tables, PKs, connect to database, execute RAW mysql queries, and so on. Form validation ? Yeah right. Back then the include_once() or require() were amazing for separating code.
But all in all that mades us learn how things work internally, how HTTP requests work, how SQL works, even why CSRF or XSS and SQL injections are executed.

Yes, the code was shitty, it was all over the place, but we learned how a web app works internally.

And yet, most developers I know who coded PHP back then are amazing developers today in any web language or framework. Why ?

Because most of them learned doing things the hard way. We had to understand how HTTP requests works, how SQL works, etc..etc.. because we didn't have the magic of rails, or any helper for any framework.

In these 12 years, web development as grown, a lot, and for the better, I'm currently learning Rails, and I've already done a project with Django and Node.JS . I liked them a lot and they are amazingly well done, I just wished PHP was more OO like ruby or python.

However, I laugh at these new Rail/Django developers that joke about PHP code. Most of them start coding jumping immediately into a framework. I bet that most of then couldn't create a simple MVC framework, ORM from scratch, hell, even a simple security CSRF would be a pain without "gem install <whatever>".

You see kids, PHP was like our first GF or our first car, where we tried stuff, made us cry (in a sense), and helped us grow and mature as developers, for those who wanted to grow that is. Now you have lots of languages for web dev, but back then PHP was the thing.

I still believe that PHP is a very cool language if done correctly, I wished tho, that it should be rewritten to be more OO.

But if one thing I learned from all of these years is that, it's the developer who makes quality code, not the language. Unless that is, you are using a framework who basically demands you to do things the way it wants, and puts a lot for magic so you don't bother with "boring" stuff. But in the end of the day it's not your code, it's theirs.

So my advice for new dev is, forget frameworks, and learn the hardcore way, then pickup a framework you love and go with it, either PHP, Ruby, Python or whatever.
Could someone explain to a non-US resident why basically everything seems to be running on credit in the US?

You basically have money on a bank account (hopefully), but still lend with interest to consume?

The only credit card I own is from my employer for expenses, everything else is on debit. I only spend money I have. Quite a few people in Sweden, where I live, have some credit on their debit cards, but I think most people only use the credit for emergencies.
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