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Hate to spoil a good melodramatic sigh of intellectual superiority, but "difficult to understand" is an accepted secondary definition of "obtuse" in many dictionaries.
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CoffeeScript is one of those things that one has to actually try to feel the full impact. Use it for a few days then return to javascript.
Its odd how he's cheering the fact that Linux is being used in the way it is, as the engine that runs very closed mobile devices.

Weird.
Congrats on getting started and building what looks to be a well designed and well built site. Here are some questions and feedback:

1) How do you pronounce it? My first thought was "thank-uzz" with a short "u" sound. After a while I realized that you probably want me to use a long "u" sound.

2) I clicked a sample note - http://thankuz.com/notes/5nyplqr - and I don't get it. How is this better/different than me sending the person an email?
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This is the undergraduate DB class. You are probably looking for the graduate DB class: http://infolab.stanford.edu/~widom/cs346/
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It's strange that Linux was suddenly taken off the list in their stock filing but I think the article comes with some caveats.

Android in the mobile would be listed as 'Android' in their SEC filing, since it's not really a traditional Linux distro like RedHat/Ubuntu/Gentoo, SuSe etc etc. Also, even Meego/Maemo, WebOS, Bada are based on the Linux kernel, but there's no common ecosystem among these as there is in desktop/server Linux distros.

While they may have only a 15% share in the Web server market, it's a VERY lucrative 15%.

Just as people like to remind us that the iPhone captures half the profit in the mobile market with a smaller marketshare, Windows Server/SQL Server/Sharepoint/Exchange etc. are big money as reflected in the revenue numbers, 4.5 billion USD last quarter or 17 billion last year just for the Server and Tools division. It's really hard to calculate how much money is directly made off LAMP/RoR/Python.

Maybe they don't see Linux as an immediate short term threat anymore, but that is far from dismissing it completely, as the article projects.
Based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics 2010 data[1] the average college graduate has nearly double the weekly wages of someone with only a hs diploma ($1038 vs $626/week) and is nearly half as likely to be unemployed (5.4% vs 9.2%)

So I think it's a bit unfair to say that this is merely a 'cultural belief'. Do you have any data to support that dramatically improved salary and employment rate is just a myth?

I do agree with the points on students loans, but I just hear way too often how "college isn't worth it" without any data to back this up what-so-ever

[1] http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_chart_001.htm
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I hate histrionics, but I feel compelled to connect the dots here.

Colleges charge more and more -- the growth rate is way above anything most of us would consider reasonable. Why? Because the feds guarantee loans for kids attending. That is, the person directly paying is not the person receiving the benefit. In fact, for many people the goal is to have the feds completely pay for education using loans, thereby giving everybody the chance to make an easy trade: take on some debt which you will have to pay many decades from now, and in return you get a few years of attending a super cool school, learning incredible stuff, and making new friends.

Except, you can never default on these loans. Once you make them, you are stuck with them for life. And those things you choose to study? Many of those will never offer you the chance to make the money you need to pay the loans back.

So now you're out of college with a degree that doesn't offer the income potential you need to pay for all those loans you signed for.

So how is this any different from indentured servitude? It's not to a particular person, but to society at large. We give you a piece of paper, you sign it, you have fun and work hard for a few years, and then you're in such bad financial straits that you'll have to take anything you can find that makes money in a sad attempt to ever get even again. How many PhDs are waiting tables in college towns? Does this appear to be a functional system achieving necessary societal goals?

There's a big discussion over whether college is necessary. No clear answers there. But there is also a discussion over whether the money trades that we make as a society are actually doing any good. We keep paying more and more, getting lots of good folks in debt, and when we ask if college is supposed to help them pay these loans back, we get a speech about how college is a special time in a person's life and shouldn't be related directly to money. It seems fine to relate it directly to money when the kid is signing his life away for a vague promise, but when we ask where the payoff is we're told we're being crass. It's about more than money. It's about the experience.

That might be true, but there are a lot of special times in a person's life. Why are we letting people trade a few good years when they're young in order to limit their options for decades afterwards? Where's the sense in that, not to the person involved necessarily, but to the rest of us?
They are brilliant. The list of speakers is mind-blowing. Thanks.
Mark Shuttleworth says Ubuntu is making inroads on desktops and is poised to take off:

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/738

FWIIW, IMHO there never will be a "year of the linux desktop." Linux on the desktop is an infiltration, not a blitzkrieg. As such, it will only be recognizable in retrospect.
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Thanks, good to know about.
I don't think many people on HN are at risk of cursing their customers and deleting their data, but many people are repeatedly at risk of undercharging, so that's where I focused my comments. I think "Don't curse at your customers, even if it would be very satisfying giving how much of a raging git they are being" pretty much goes without saying.
Yes, I see a lot of that. Virtually every university I come across has recently completed or in the middle of some huge sprawling campus expansion. It is hard to fathom that the growth from increased tuition aren't directly funding such building projects.
Neat service. Anyone know of a browser plugin/extension though that will let me do this from the context of an existing loaded page? I've wanted that for a while for testing local web dev stuff.
http://mylawyergabe.com might help you answer some questions or at least learn a bit.
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Contracts are useful for spelling out the rights and responsibilities of each party so there are no misunderstandings later. But I agree with you, if the person you're contracting with doesn't want to pay you, you may well waste more than the contract is worth trying to get your money.
Thank you for the response. I agree in general. But so far I haven't seen too much fruit in this discussion, because the lisp community(all dialects) has had this conversation too many times, I appreciate your submissions and blog posts that give us a new way to look at things, there are certainly much better topics for us to discuss. The future of lisp is certainly important enough, but we could have had just a better way of starting it(continuing it actually).
Not even if the question was "kindly pay your hosting bill"?

"Fuck you" then sounds like the equivalent of "kindly delete all my data", no?
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Your comment about the mysterious `-l` option got me interested and I did some investigation. It looks like a custom option added by Apple to indicate it was started by `launchd`. Here's a link to the relevant patch on their opensource site:

http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/OpenSSH/OpenSSH-95.1....
Title should probably mention that this is a project by Ward Cunningham, the inventor of the wiki.

Source (in CoffeeScript) is at https://github.com/WardCunningham/Smallest-Federated-Wiki
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You have no control group so the $1038 vs $626 or unemployment numbers are meaningless. The top would natural succeed even without going to college, you can't tell how much value it actually adds.
Before this blog post, I'd always squinted at those chain icons and wondered what in the world they were supposed to be.

Bad visual puns do not usability make.
Do you run into any pushback from potential clients when you tell them this?
Note, though, that they went to "excellent schools". They could have just gone to low end state schools and walked away with much less doubt.
The link seems to work. This appears to be someone's blog, so what do you mean by "that account has been suspended?"

Fireballed looks cool, incidentally.
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You are much kinder to the original post than I think is warranted. I'd go so far as to say "the author fundamentally misunderstands the concept of rainbow tables". I don't want to pick on him unduly: it can be much better to write something clear and wrong and have it corrected than to persist in fuzzy thinking. But let's not waffle: this piece is clear and wrong.

As you point out, rainbow tables are fundamentally about chains of hashes, and about saving only the entry points into those chains. One would never save every entry, and if one did it would not be a rainbow table. It's an arbitrary time-storage tradeoff, and faster GPU's simply change the "sweet spot". The limit is not the storage space, but remains the amount of time you are willing to spend pre-computing, and GPU's give you much greater leverage here.

I tried to look through the article and find some positive pieces to point out, but I couldn't do it. He the conflates floating point performance with hash speed, asserts that one needs to scan the full rainbow table from disk to use it, and concludes that rainbow tables are limited to 4 character passwords. The general conclusion is correct (worry about brute force attacks) but there are so many other large errors that I cringe in fear.

Author (should you read this): I don't mean be impolite, and I don't understand these issues well enough myself to try to teach them, but I truly am scared by your apparent fluency with these concepts combined with the level of inaccuracy. Please do what you can to keep educating yourself about these concepts before applying them professionally.
Thanks for pointing out Japanese Telecom.
This is probably the best Desktop system you can get for old(er) hardware.
Well, guess we should all go buy iOS devices, so we can have a great one-click experience watching lectures produced by public universities that are paid for by taxpayer dollars and ought to be freely accessible.

(Sorry if I'm rubbing it in too hard, you've been very gracious in this discussion.)
Some days I like it more than others, but turntable.fm coding_soundtrack rooms are usually pretty good (http://turntable.fm/coding_soundtrack3)
Remember when middle class parents could afford to pay for their kids' undergrad education?
What about people who do both at the same time? Personally I find this model to really work for me, Uni opens up my eyes to what exists out there, and I dig deep into the specifics of what piques my interest on my own time.

I find that most programmers who are only self taught are missing breadth. They're great with what they encountered and had to try, but usually suck at even knowing of the existence of what lies just beyond the edge.

Or at least the ones I've had the pleasure of talking to :)
I imagine he does, but those are probably also the type of clients you don't want to be accepting anyways.
Chromebook is interesting but it needs to be cheaper than the Windows alternatives as it was predicted to be before launch, somewhere at $199.

Right now, for about the same money($450), more or less, you can buy a better equipped Windows laptop/netbook and then run Chrome browser on top of it. Add some free MSE antivirus and you've got a machine that's useful as a general purpose computer even without a constant tether to the cloud while working about the same with the cloud.
Depending on the job market, college grads may or may not have a hard time find a job to get on track to pay off their loans quickly, so what? Everyone has a rough patch, some more than others.

The high school student who chooses NOT to go to college might be better off for a few years after high school, but on average, their LONG TERM economic future is not as bright as that of a college grad-- even if the college grad has a rough time find settling into a career after graduation.

This is perhaps more clear if you look at people in their 30's and 40's. The college grads are, I think, generally better off (modulo some outliers).
Also a good lesson to back up your site.
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As a great Ubuntu fan I must say: It's strange why mobile plattforms are always a example for the success of Linux.

Android may be using a Linux kernel, but it has next to nothing to do with traditionel Linux distros, that are developed in colaboration.
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Too bad it's not currently available outside of the US.
I really love this experiment. When I was in High School I was fortunate to be able to audit some University classes for which there wasn't an equivalent in my school district (numerical analysis and fortran programming). That allowed me to 'bank' time which would have nominally been wasted waiting to reach 'college age' or 'post HS diploma'. This is much more common today and my kids have all benefited from it.

This experiement is sort of the next step. If we can combine that with free access to a syllabus of seminal papers (vs paying $36 each from some Journal publisher) it will allow a lot of people more time to do great things.
Clozure (http://ccl.clozure.com/) is good at being better than SBCL in some areas (like, its compiler is a lot simpler). But there's room for the current CL implementations. CLISP for example is the only Common Lisp implementation doing JIT compilation. ABCL deploys on the JVM. It would be nice to have a CL deploy to JavaScript. And really nice to have a new JITed implementation that takes ideas from LuaJIT.

Don't forget the commercial CL implementations. Lispworks is pretty awesome.

What's really needed is to treat Common Lisp as a platform like the JVM. And for that to happen the current Free Software system libraries (networking, I/O, threading, Quicklisp, ASDF, FFI) need to continue to be improved, and need to run well on all CL implementations.
I can assure you there are correlation/causation issues with those stats. I come from a demographic and gene pool of people likely to hold degrees--aside from me everyone in my 6 person family has at least a bachelors and my girlfriend has a masters. However, despite no degree, I had no trouble obtaining a lucrative career as a developer.
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Correlation or causation? It seems to me colleges often accept people who are already poised to be successful.

Imagine if a university decided to randomly pick people to educate. (Not randomly pick among the applicants -- randomly grab people off the street.) Do you think those students would be very much better off after being educated?

(Btw, yes, I'm very happy I went to university.)
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With the risk of making myself sound even more defensive about common lisp that I already did, common lisp was not designed by a committee, it was standardized after a lot of use and discussion within the community.

p.s. And an expert is exactly what I want to become, I have no ambition to be a code monkey. I'm truly sorry if expertise and skill are valued less these days in the tech circles. "Good enough" is not good enough for me. I look up to the experts and brilliant minds of our community and aspire to be as good one day, I don't care much for the general case, i have no use for "a language for everybody".
Nothing and currently don't own any stock option
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Not sure exactly what your argument or point is. Is Android selling because it is the best OS? or because it is currently seen as the 'other' OS? if more devices come with WP7 installed, with more shelf space dedicated to WP7 vs. Android, is there any reason why WP7 couldn't take the same position as Android?

The WP7 marketplace is growing quickly, the OS is solid and beautiful, and there is a lot of 'interest' at the moment. That 'interest' may not turn into sales, but handset manufacturers considering WP over Android could make a huge difference.
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Could you list a few? (genuinely interested)
I look forward to parts two and three.
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Great recent "Bloomberg Risk Taker" profile on Elon: http://www.bloomberg.com/video/73460184/
I've been finding myself bashing Adobe over the last year or so -- but to me this is a good sign that they're starting to get it...
He does sort of balance it with an opposing point, though:

> My biggest worry about all this is that claims of a major result should be resolved in a timely fashion, since otherwise unpleasant claims of credit and priority may arise.

In this case it's not too clear to me what's gained from keeping the updated proof private, available only to a few anonymous referees, and not available to folks like Lipton. It might still take a while to sort out even if it were generally available, but that's different from keeping it within a very slow and limited formalized process.
Might be nice to advise anyone willing to blanket-flag posts from a site that they do so at their own risk.

Soon after I started flagging posts from sources I didn't like, my flag links vanished.
I'm a 22 year old university student in Sweden (starting my 2nd year now) and I find it hard to imagine life with school costing a fortune like this.

Sure I, and most students in Sweden, take loans to pay for food, rent and books but the school itself is free - even now! We're also getting a good low rent loan with a part allowance. No wonder we're having so many foreign students. That's going to change from next year though when the foreigners will get charged.
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Connection sharing and terminal multiplexers aren't mutually exclusive. Let's say that in order to get to 4-5 hosts (which you run screen on) you have to jump through a certain SSH bastion host which you specify using the ProxyCommand directive. You're going to want connection sharing on that bastion host, to make subsequent connections to hosts beyond much faster. If you have to jump through two bastion hosts to get where you have to go (yes I actually have to do this) connection sharing is a must.

Even without a bastion host, connection sharing allows for faster scp from your home box to the target host you're running screen on.
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It depends. I think there are lots of folks who would excel but do not make it to college simply because of economic conditions or low familial expectations holding them down. There's also many without intellectual talent who get into college simply because a parent held their nose to the grindstone for years and forced every available opportunity onto them.
One of the "refactorings" in Fowler is "change algorithm", which I think is a bit of a cheat.
I read Microsoft's original change of wording completely differently - it wasn't that they had defeated Linux, it was that Windows had already lost (largely because their competitors changed the game.) Competitors no longer compete only with Internet Explorer, they now offer an alternative to the entire Windows OS. Linux on the desktop (GNOME/KDE) didn't win per-se, but the browser did win, and Windows isn't a necessary choice for a browser-first system.
I'm sure I flag more than you do, and that never happened to me. Maybe you flagged a bunch of stuff all at once. Don't do that.
OK, what about the many "breaks and loopholes." for the other tax brackets? I'm in the 25% bracket (Married filing jointly, $68,001 - $137,300) and I paid under 6% effective rate for each of the last few years.
No Flex? (Does anyone use Flex?)
The biggest problem with WP7 is that it's limited to fairly high-end and expensive phones. Android spans a much wider space - not always well, and that's one reason for the relatively low consumer satisfaction.

Google has a delicate situation in their hands - they must calm down its Android partners and ensure Motorola won't have preferential treatment. One way to calm them down is to step up with its new patent portfolio and use it to help protect the likes of HTC and Samsung from Apple's and Microsoft's patents.
I have a blog post about this in the making, but in the meantime, I'd like to point out that there is zero quantifiable evidence to RPG's worse is better thesis. There are many aspects of Lisp/LispMachines vs C/Unix that can account for why they're used where they are, and he completely ignores the obvious ones that people have (and continue to!) complain about: C/Unix is cheap/free and runs everywhere. This wasn't the case for Common Lisp until the early 2000s!

I think RPG's good news, bad news came to the wrong conclusion and made some inappropriate dichotomies (Right Thing vs Worse is Better) that unfortunately have become memes that lead people astray.
Given the rate these terrible articles from Bostinnovation are getting upvoted, I think something is suspect.
I think it would be a much worse sign if a separate group within Google launched a product (which required signing up partners) and the initial product wasn't targeted for the dominant tablet platform.

I am surprised that they didn't try to make this "web-based", but if you're going to launch a product like this as a native application, it would be downright foolish not to do so first on the iPad.
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your school itself is not free, the costs are just hidden from you. You will pay much more in taxes over your lifetime than the college costs cited this article.

There is no free lunch.
You mean why are people so afraid of anyone at all with money or legal force knowing everything they've ever expressed any interest in without any context to explain the degree of or reason for the interest?
Well, that sucked. Go through the whole process then ask for an email address? Waste of time.
No, you definitely shouldn't rely on a $3/month host for backups. However, that does not in any way mean that the $3/month host should not also keep reliable backups. Just because one party can't count on it doesn't mean the other party isn't responsible for it.
1) Warren only takes a salary of $100k.
2) For investment income you only pay taxes on the gains, not the principal.
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