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Re. second one, wouldn't it also be possible to write

s = "My string literal" :: TaintedString

?

It's not shorter than the constructed version but it should work, you sometimes need it to get the "right" kind of number out of a literal when the type inference gets confused (or more commonly in the REPL)
Education is not so special that it can't be subjected to the scientific method. Medicine is similarly complex, and benefited immensely from randomised trials. There may be challenges (the placebo effect of new methodologies, and the impact which observation has on behavior), but it's not so special that big gains can't be made by studying what works in an empirical manner.

When education catches up to where medicine was in the 1937 (with the introduction of placebo trials), or even the 1950s (with double blind trials) they can start looking into methodological improvements.

Until then, there's lots of low-hanging apples.

I guess the best way forward is for the education departments to stop trying to control everything. They send out instructions, telling teachers what they are meant to do. Why not just AB test the instructions they are sending principals? That way, they can learn which of their decisions actually work.
Except now the combinatorial explosion gets even worse. How do you prefix a b64 blob which has been SQL-escaped, urlencoded and htmlencoded? `urlhtmlsqlb64String`?
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Anyone know of any? I have so far only found Skyttle but it has absolutely no documentation. Viralheat has given 5000 connections for free but that's way too few.
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as a matter of fact, they don't strictly tell you who the person is with an email address... they just tell you that the email address is taken.
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Speaking from experience? How do you interview at company X while you are flipping burgers?
You are really missing the point. One of the best ways to learn is to make a lot of mistakes, in everything.
That is definitely plausible, but I'm more referring to the feature set, i guess i would clarify as the contract between them and the developer. That is basically memcached, from what i understood from their blog posts. As far as memcached itself goes, i hear it does what it does quite well, but that's ot.
He's moving the gold because:

* He's worried that sanctions etc could freeze it

* He want's to be able to sell it without being clear about it (so he can buy the next election or make a personal nest egg with it).

Venezuela's bonds moved 50 basis points on this so the markets are obviously worried that the gold's going to start evaporating once it's under his control.
Ahh I thought this was a letter from 'beyong the grave' rather than a historical one. Oh well. Imagine he's out there doing something clever somewhere.
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How come articles like this come up on the homepage so often? A lot of us here already know how to code, and those who want to probably aren't reading Hacker News.
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I may want to look to be balanced. I can't believe it in this day and age. I learned a lot touching on clubs from it. Big shots will enjoy some reversal if it was optimized to accommodate doing this. They can get quite cranky. They reckoned that I was in for a fleecing.
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Anti-corruption office in Slovenia publishes a web app that lists _all_ transactions between governmental entities and private sector from 2002 till now. With a great user interface.<p>They got geeks to do it right. And now shit is starting to hit the fan.
I think _why left because he didn't want to do it anymore, it's that simple. Being _why must have taken up a load of time and one day he just wanted to spend it some other way - I'd suggest that it shows he was far more balanced than the average "rockstar" programmer, he may really just have left to spend more time with his family.

He gave a lot to the community, far more in the short time he was around than most people produce in their lifetime, and we should be/are thankful for it.
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They're probably nervous because you've asked them to solve a weird problem they've never had to solve in the real world. Have you actually written, in shipping code, a single-linked list or an elementary algorithm to operate on one?

Unless you want them to implement a compiler or something, I think you'll learn a lot more about somebody's programming abilities by asking them to turn a list of use cases into a class diagram or write out a few SQL queries given for a given set of tables.
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> Polymorphism is an abstraction technique whose goal is substitutability

If you said that to students in lesson #1 of an OOP course no one will understand what you're talking about.

Sure maybe the Duck extends Animal example isn't a realistic one, but you've got to give students a chance to get their heads around the very basics first, and they can at least understand it by using simple real-life things.
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With that definition there have barely been any dumb phones for the last 10 years...
Again, smartphones weren't supposed to be mainstream phones and the old sony ericsson phones (for instance) that ran java apps, could copy + paste, tether via USB or bluetooth many many years before iPhone and android and were certainly not considered smartphones by anyone.

"And you don't consider this to be great?"
No, I expect that such basic features to be available from the get go. Of course you should be able to download alternatives but at some point you have to draw the line. The phone must be usable when you get it. And requiring all users to download hundreds of apps isn't a solution.

On my android-phone I can't even get it to automatically update the time correctly (because my network doesn't provide it?), so I use the app clocksync which can only set the time with 30 sec accuracy if I haven't rooted the phone and it can't update the time automatically unless I've rooted my phone. So much for being a smartphone.

On maemo you just just ntp as you would on any linux box. And to backup everything? Run rsync. Done. I haven't even begun to start the long process of validating all of the backup-applications for android. And unless I root my phone I bet I won't be able to backup what I want anyway.

Perhaps a new definition is in place. A smartphone is a device that must be rooted if you want to do anything with it :P

Not saying that sandboxing isn't great and that it is just what the market needs - but it is not a smartphone (again, using the "old/original" definition)
Advertisers and content producers seem to have a problem with people skipping their ads, going so far as to sue DVR makers for including a "skip 30 seconds" button. Clearly they believe there should be some kind of social contract[0], where they expect viewers to view their ads in exchange for watching the associated content. Such a social contract would be far more likely to be upheld if the ads consisted of a simple and informative list. Dedicated fans of TV shows will sacrifice ten seconds in order to support show creators. For that matter, they don't even need to watch the sponsor list for the full 10 seconds, as long as they know it's there, and that buying goods from those sponsors will keep their favorite show running.

[0] Actually it seems they want the force of law behind their business model...
Right now it's very easy to find a job as developer but it hasn't always been that way. If you'd graduated in 1992 like I did or in 2001-2 you might have had a very different experience.
I did something similar to this a while ago, but I had issues because the UUIDs of the disk images were all the same, so VirtualBox couldn't recognise all of them at once.

Not sure if Microsoft's fixed that yet, but if not the magic words to change a disk image are: VBoxManage internalcommands sethduuid
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The criticism being put forward isn't at all arrogant. A tutorial for beginners that teaches you the wrong thing is incredibly detrimental. It's good to point that out and fix it.
If ever there was a clear example of why gold makes a terrible monetary base this was it.

And it seems to me that a lot of the reason for gold being worth a lot is countries just sitting on it. If they would sell it to people who would use it (for jewelry or active trading) the price would go down a lot.

And what is the point of just having lots of gold and never using it? It's just a big pile of metal, if it wasn't there would anyone notice the difference? (i.e. could I borrow it, then return it 100 years later? Would anyone notice?)
While you read, you make the writer of the book you're reading happy. He or she wrote the book to be read, when you do so, you're making it all worthwhile for them. You contribute back to humanity by enjoying and using the work of others.

And if the book's purpose was to teach, and it delivered that promise, then by reading it, and gaining knowledge, you will 'perform' (lacking a better word off the top of my head) better, and will be more useful in the long run.

Reading is an investment. Read good books, and the investment will be worth it.
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This is the fallacy that is, IMO, killing online video. I am a tech guy with above-average lifetime income potential and influence on the high-tech purchasing decisions of my friends and family. I have money and want to spend it, but it seems nobody is selling what I'm looking to buy. I am not alone.
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Well, how do you propose making investment in R&D worthwhile? The alternative to patents is weapons-grade industrial secrets.
The best preparation doesn't involve studying detailed test examples or cramming about the fundamentals you have become a bit rusty on since your University CS days.

The ultimate prep for a tech interview or any interview for that matter is plenty of rest, reasonable research on the company you are interviewing with and getting a clear understanding of their expectations for the role you are applying for.

Tech interviews aren't designed to test how much study and preparatory work you can do, the most effective Tech interviews are designed to find out what your general competency is with specific technologies and what sort of coder personality you align to. The tests aren't designed to find out how good you are in one specific circumstance, they want to gauge what calibre of code you will produce should you work for them on a daily basis.

My advice: Get plenty of rest, stay calm, do your best on the day and if you failed miserably then chances are you avoided joining a company where the level of expectation would have led to unnecessary stress and pressure down the line.
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I can't seem to find where, but I remember reading about this a few years ago...

Some company had connected their Continuous Integration server to the exit door. Breaking the build would lock the exit door until the build was fixed.

Near the end of the day, some programmer would announce his big commit, and the rest of the team would rush to exit the room :)
Fire sales always have a novelty. Its not so much the price point but the innate human desire to pick up things at a price they otherwise could not have afforded or wanted to.
As a Venezuelan, this is terrible news. Forget economic consequences for a minute.

The corruption levels in Venezuela are incredibly high. Is widely known that the Chavez government has been one of the most corrupt government in Venezuela history.

What do you think is going to happen to this gold when it gets to Venezuela? (If it ever gets there)

I mean, I don't know the dynamics of this, but which authority is going to weigh the incoming gold? Who are we supposed to trust when every institution in the country is in Chavez hands? They basically say what they are told.

Also, our Central Bank does not have the physical capacity to store that much gold. Chavez already offered the basement of the Presidential Palace :S (which I have been to and is as a regular basement can be).

What about the cost of moving that quantity of gold? They are already talking about 40 trips. Yeah, that's going to cost, 400 million according to the article. Money that could be very well spent in say, hospitals: http://www.noticias24.com/actualidad/noticia/302153/en-fotos... )

As for the cash reserves: they are going to Russian and Chinese banks. Sorry to those that might be offended, but personally I have as much trust in these governments as I have in mine.

We have an election in 2012. If Chavez looses (or if he evens runs... he might die from his cancer before that, dunno), that gold is going back. More gold will be lost along the way.

What about the cash reserves? The new government will have to deal with Russians and Chinese institutions under a different premise, because the new government will be or will try to be very close with the US. I think we can expect things to get a bit rough and a lot of gold will go unaccounted for.

Sad news for Venezuela, once again.
The present article suggests the opposite, if you replace "costs money" with "has ads". Else, why did piracy rates drop significantly when Hulu was launched, and spike again as shows were pulled?

Also as counterexample, lots of people pay for Netflix.
Actually, Chavez has already destroyed his fiat currency. What's a better alternative store of value than gold?
1000 isn't very many at all in this day and age. And because MD5 has been actually broken I'd avoid it entirely. Use scrypt.
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WebOS is a terrible, flawed, slow as molasses OS.

WebOS will never gain traction because apps on it will always be much slower than native compiled apps on iOS or even JITed apps on Android.

It's that simple. No amount of buzzword compliance is going to change that.

Just look at this benchmark:

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The device/OS which relies on JavaScript performance for everything is the slowest when it comes to JavaScript performance. :) Even if they could 2-2.5x performance, it'd still be noticeably slower than iOS or Android.

Anyone who thinks people are buying these TouchPads because they think they're a viable product is delusional at best. People are buying them because they're $99, and $99 doesn't buy you much these days.
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I'll go even further. If you're a kid and coding isn't fun, then please stop doing it. The last thing you need is to sacrifice your career to something you don't like doing.
I just showed one article and obviously didn't dig too deeply in it. I've been hearing complaints about BLS as long as I've known about BLS and my quick google search was a page of blog posts/articles complaining about it.

>how does TrimTabs know whether someone is looking for work?

How does BLS? By seeing how many people claim benefits? What about those who aren't eligible?
Why not run IETester on just a normal 7 VM?
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Personally, I'm a freelancer living in a foreign country.

When I see this, I always ask: what technologies do you work with?
You can't eat gold, all this rant on gold is so stupid, the monetary value is merely historical. In modern economy only counts the real application of resources and nothing else.
Nobody will ever introduce a new Gold standard, a resource is a bad idea for a currency. What if someone finds a gigantic Deposit or a way to cheaply produce Gold?
The additional value over the real industrial utilization is a bubble, nothing else.
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> the monetary value is merely historical

In theory, yes. However, the all-time high price that one can get for gold today is actual and current.
That's why I want one to test my web apps, keeping in line with yesterday's discussion - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2911935.

But I haven't seen any fire sales here in the UK. The cheapest I've found is for ~£160 on ebay from people who bought the $99 ones in the US.
Great advice, thanks. I am not sure how better and more unique to describe my app (it is a travel guide about the USA), or more company (which writes simple travel guides).

Still, a lot of info to ponder.
When they put WebOS on the iPad it ran twice as fast:
http://news.techeye.net/hardware/webos-did-better-on-an-ipad

The problem with the ToughPad was that the hardware was appallingly slow.
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In response to your edit:

> We can't say that, categorically, all scientists working outside of their realm of expertise produce bullshit, but it notably has happened.

Perhaps it has, but Einstein supporting socialism isn't an example of that. Coming out with "herb, derp, socialism is bad, m'kay" smacks of tea party logic. The question is vastly more complex than that. The US has quite a bit of "socialism" and has for a very long time.
Good points.

This could be a bad signal, gold is very handy when you need to get out of a country in political change.

Didn't had the Wife of the Tunisian Dictator a ton of gold?
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(Edit to my comment above, two days later:)

I just remembered (smacks forehead with palm) that a couple of years ago I posted a sample privacy policy that can give you and your lawyer a head start---see http://www.ontechnologylaw.com/privacy-policy-for-web-sites-...
Chavez government has been one of the most corrupt

Really? Venezuela should be a much richer country but was controlled by a cabal of wealthy families that siphoned the wealth off.

Since Chavez, the poverty rates are down and literacy is way up.

The gold move is a smart one. Control of actual gold bullion will be important as we go into these next tumultuous months.
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Great job!
(Reprise of a comment posted above:)

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> They also result in much faster, safer, and
compact implementations.

If you are using a scripting language, regular expressions are often faster than a hand-written parser because the regular expression library itself will work at a lowest-level.
I don't think it's really false, just misleading. You very well may land a great job because you were in college. But is so it will because of who you met, not what you learned.
The A/B testing math for low numbers and low conversion rates is not attractive. You can work the numbers out, but my guesstimate at dinner is that if you get one interview per twenty and mail 100 per week, you'd need almost a year to get confidence on a 6th interview per week. I would A/B test your marketing site as a dev purely to communicate that that is how you think, but it would not provide value to the average unemployed person. (All devs with any desire to ever get a job should have a web prescence, by the way.)

The scenario is more interesting if you rep a lot of candidates. A LinkedIn oe what have you could test resummes or equivalent web views very efficiently indeed.
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Just a thought.
A real currency is widely accepted, gold is not.
Gold is very unhandy, the article is about one example why.
There are logs that are useless (but they're logged because someone's lazy to turn them off), logs that are somehow useful (but nobody will grief their loss) and logs that are important and better'd be reliably stored.

Syslog (if we talk about networking - not with UDP, but with reliable TCP or SCTP-based protocol) and fsync() after each write is reliable solution.

If you're logging mostly pointless runtime data (like webserver access logs to static files, which, most of time, nobody ever cares about) with reliable syslog - you're doing it wrong. (That's why webservers don't generally use syslog, but directly write to files.) If you're logging important transactions with unreliable logging system - you're doing it wrong, too.

There's nothing wrong with syslog. Just use the right tool for the right job.
Good point. However, would you say that Dostoyevsky has tension and pacing? I raise him because Lem does, and to my mind, Lem reads more like Dostoyevsky than like Stephen King. How about Dickens or Victor Hugo?

I admit that I don't know enough (I fail at reading Dostoyevsky) but it is counted as great writing despite lacking in the pace that modern readers desire.
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What if someone finds a gigantic Deposit

of paper? And starts printing off currency? What makes gold valuable is that it is scarce, we know with quite a bit of certainty how much is below and above the ground, and is has a background of this usage. As we are seeing with "quantitative easing," paper is not scarce.
That is a good abstraction for thinking about code. In the meanwhile, machines still have "one memory, many cores" architecture, in which inter-proc communication is about references is a practical optimization (like ref counting of binaries in Erlang). Some of those design decisions will have to change when machine archs move to "many (core, memory)" form.