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Maybe I'm thinking of something different, but I've never considered regular expression to be hard to write or hard to write well, and considering that they may be compiled to machine code (either AOT or JIT), they're not _necessarily_ inefficient and a good implementation is likely to handle unicode better than your average programmer. So, while I agree that they aren't a panacea, they certainly are a powerful and useful tool, and for simple pattern matching and/or extraction, they are often easier to visually verify than the hand-written equivalent in my experience.
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I can see this fitting really well with Khan Academy. I wonder if the two have talked at all.

Congrats on the success guys, the site is awesome.
$68.40/month seems a bit high to me
Why do I care if the output javascript is readable? It's object code. I don't want to care about it.
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Long-time HN member using a throwaway account for business reasons.

I’m thinking about launching a PR firm focused on helping startups/small companies and am hoping for some feedback.

I know it’s been done before, but I haven’t seen it executed well. I’ve spent time at both startups and PR firms and still see a massive void that needs to be filled.

I understand there’s a stigma around hiring PR firms at small companies because they’re typically too expensive, they don’t understand the needs of a small company, they don’t help you acquire new customers, the results are difficult to measure, etc.

So, what else? What are you looking for in a PR firm? Would you never, ever hire a PR firm? Do you currently work with an awesome PR company that I should know about? In SF and want to discuss over coffee? Any feedback in the comments or by email (in my profile) would be greatly appreciated.
Yeah, I dealt with them for my last job, we used the faxing web services.

The support was god-awful. I will never use anything by Protus again, ever.
> It seems that most people who undergo higher education do so with the expectation that it will lead to a "higher" job, and that's magical thinking.

It's also false advertisement.

"Get a degree from us and you'll get a job" is how it's sold to us from the age of elementary school forwards.

Degrees are expensive and this industry earns 100s of billions every year. There is only 1 way they can market a degree to you, and that's to connect it directly with a job.
Interesting. So all the dynamic stuff is in client-side javascript?
Some of the schadenfreude is directed toward struggling MBAs and Ph.D.s in economics, whose patronizing platitudinous advice to the millions of unemployed to become more competitive in the new globalized economy has neither been forgotten, nor forgiven. They helped facilitate the collapse, and encouraged the upper one tenth of one percent to win asymmetric zero-sum games against the middle class. Now they have to become more competitive in minimum wage jobs.
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The danger of using an AfD as a tool for improving an article is that it forces people to improve it or remove what already exists, which discourages people from adding articles if they can't add an extensive article (or even if they can).

An AfD should not get filed unless the article itself has negative value to Wikipedia, and Wikipedia would be better off with the article gone. There do exist such articles, but that should be a pretty high bar.
... or at least, you haven't done second-year CS. Pick one.
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Well, take this Clojure tutorial, for instance, comparing a simple DI implementation in Java with a single function in Clojure. The latter bears almost no resemblance to the former, other than achieving the desired effect. Is it fair to say that the user of a closure is implementing the Dependency Injection pattern, or is it a positive side effect of the fundamental properties of first class functions and lexical scope?

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You can't really expect much from them, their job is to move ad inventory and HN is willing to throw large amounts of traffic at them for many things. I think their days are numbered for two main reasons:

1) At some point (if not already) it will be more beneficial to launch your startup here directly and get 100% of the HN traffic instead of losing most of it on a TC page.

2) There's no space on TC for startups who don't have an a-list cast of founders and/or investors.

HN is probably going to be what makes TC irrelevant which is ironic because they pour so much energy into securing this audience.

Are they better or worse than a content farm? I think the line is blurred a little but in TC's favor. They write news, some of it's pretty mediocre and a lot of it makes you wonder when they'll come out and admit they're Engadget and Tuaw's ugly green bastard child, but it's news and it's now, not generic content tailored to suck search engine traffic for years.
Is there any approach that works great at turning kids into mathematicians, though?
I frequently use Wikipedia as a source of information on a TV series, and that includes an episode list and synopses. If people might want to look it up, why should they have to move that content elsewhere to one of the various TV summary sites, most of which suck a lot more than Wikipedia (with the exception of special cases for shows popular enough to have dedicated sites, like Memory Alpha).
MIT (and I assume other top CS schools) doesn't teach coding 'skills' (6.00 aside, and its not required for a cs degree, or the first two weeks of 6.005), but instead teaches you knowledge about how to solve problems that a coder will encounter while... coding... IMHO, thats what the salaries are for.

That said, lowering the barrier to code also means lowering the barrier to encountering these types of problems, thus hopefully making more/better solutions. The more the merrier!
One of the first examples of OOP I encountered was the old 'shape' hierarchy demonstration:
'shape' is a base class.
'rectangle' is a new class that inherits from shape.
'square' inherits from 'rectangle', etc.

It demonstrates the ".. is a .." relationship that inheritance describes perfectly.

This is a pretty common way to introduce OOP as it draws on stuff we all know intuitively. The example proposed with a bunch of drum machines concepts, trash, timers & stripes or whatever is so mind bogglingly obscure for most people that I'm sure they would have checked out long before the actual OOP lesson begins.

Not sure what the point is.

Oh, and btw, just because you might not ever need to represent a 'duck' object, doesn't mean that it is a stupid example. Say I write a game with a bunch of actors, I might have a base actor class, a bird class that extends that, and a duck class that extends that. Bam, legitimate use for a 'duck' object. There's probably a lot more people wanting to write "a clone of the sims" than "an intractably obscure drum-machine".
Nor does that mean you can't try.
1 million searches is OK but Compete shows them at 200K visitors/month: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/hipmunk.com/ and surprisingly, it shows they had MORE visits a year ago than they do around this time... so where's the growth? it seems stagnant...
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It is a pretty one-sided negative article.

I always enjoyed being jobless, I finally get the time to catch up on things I want to do, and it is a good time to reflect and make life changes.

The general perception out there is that being jobless sucks, and this article reinforces that by focussing on negative reports. It would have been much more interesting to read a more balanced article.
Thanks for writing that post. Very clear and informative.
Have you read Friedl's book? I didn't think they were hard to write or hard to write well until I did, and then I regretted my past life of sin.
The data is also encrypted with your own key. I know that's an option with at least one of those Mozy or Backblaze apps but definitely not with Dropbox.
I've found Ragel ( http://www.complang.org/ragel/ ) to be a good compromise: it's less error-prone and easier to maintain a Ragel grammar than a handwritten lexer, but Ragel lets you use regular expressions for all the little places near the leaves of a grammar where it's easy to represent token rules as regular expressions. In contrast to most regex APIs, it does the state machine compilation at build time rather than runtime, and the generated code can be quite fast (although you have to make a speed-vs-code-size tradeoff).
The usual solutions of Bronze/Silver/Gold work rather well for that and have the advantage of self-evident meanings and widespread usage. If you want something more amusing, you might try a movie or video metaphor.
Ok, I see, so it's a bit different from Stripe's approach which to actually Ajax the cc# to stripe's server and return a token which the merchant then uses as a proxy for thee cc in normal API calls. I think they claim to obviate the self-exam for merchants despite it being materially similar to e transparent post.
I just want apple to make my itunes collection available to me on any computer I'm on ... hopefully that happens sometime soon, so I don't have to pick the songs/albums/playlists I want to listen to that week and sync them to my iphone.
The description "Foo is an X for Y" only works when it doesn't provoke the obvious response: "No, X is the X for Y".
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When you were 8 years old, did you believe that, in the future, people in America would be frantically playing musical chairs with their lives, trying to put other people out of a livelihood before others can do it to them?

When did the future turn into a game of Survivor?

When did the economy become a game of musical chairs? If you don't have a seat when the music stops, just kiss your life goodbye.
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Quote by Morgan Freeman from Shawshank Redemption.

"These walls are funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That's institutionalized."

I wonder if that's what's happening to people these days. They go through the institution of education through their youth, and then the institution of higher education. When they graduate they go through the institution of the job search and sending out resumes.

People are told this is how things work all their lives. They saw their parents doing it and now they are doing the same thing. When the process starts to break down, they don't know what to do. In some cases people are shackled by the institution of home ownership (unable to move to the jobs.)

As others are saying, contacts are highly important. My level is success is dependent on the size of my virtual rolodex. People need to get around the institution.

Personally, I'm a freelancer living in a foreign country. Currently I'm living in a cozy house costing me less than $200 per month (third world tropical paradise!) I can move anywhere and work from anywhere. I get jobs, salaries, contracts and one-off quickies in the same industry and they are all the same to me. The only difference is in the payment model. I think everyone needs to start thinking like this. Don't be an employee looking for a job, be a business making the same sorts of decisions the other businesses are. You are offering a service and you need to be mobile in offerings and locations to survive.
I never get tired of quoting Mike Konczal:

And speaking as someone who has taken graduate coursework in “continental philosophy”, and been walked through the big hits of structural anthropology, Hegelian marxism and Freudian feminism, that graduate macroeconomics class was by far the most ideologically indoctrinating class I’ve ever seen. By a mile. There was like two weeks where the class just copied equations that said, if you speak math, “unemployment insurance makes people weak and slothful” over and over again. Hijacking poor Richard Bellman, the defining metaphor was that observation that if something is on an optimal path any subsection is also an optimal path, so government just needs to get out of the way as the macroeconomy is optimal absent absurdly defined shocks and our 9.6% unemployment is clearly optimal.

-- http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2010/06/29/blogging-and-the-e...
As a startup guy and recovering sysadmin, I really admire the Amazon Web Services effort. It started out small and ugly, but they have marched ever onward, slowly improving things and adding new features. Five years of steady plodding can get you pretty far.
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Found the video if anyone else is interested (same talk, but from 2007) : http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2007/video/talk...
Regular expression systems are designed for a very wide variety of text processing tasks. Lexing and parsing systems are optimized for a much more limited range of tasks--lexing and parsing. When you are writing software that is intended as a production system, not a one-off quickie, you are almost always better off using a more specialized system optimized for your specific task, if one is available. The unoptimized, general purpose system would be Plan B. I think that was Pike's point.

Unfortunately, it will probably be misinterpreted as a general criticism of regular expression systems. There are so many cases where my knowledge of a powerful, general-purpose system has saved me from having to learn a new software library for each random task that I intend to keep using such things as regular expressions, scripting languages, unix command line pipelines, Excel, etc. Writing my own code or learning to use a new, specialized system is Plan B for simple, non-production tasks.

Only when I can amortize the cost (time/effort) over a lot of use (as in a production system), or when the advantage of the specialized system is noticeable to the user (including me), does the specialized system become my Plan A.

General purpose tools, special purpose tools, and custom coding all have different costs and benefits, and there are circumstances under which each one is the best choice.
I admit that the code is badly written. I'd mentioned that it was still in development when ditched. Please check config/connect.php where I'm taking care of magic quotes.
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The website is very consistent and has a very clear visual hierarchy.

It seems your subjective impression colored all your subsequent judgments about the site. What you are writing there in the first sentence just makes no sense at all, caps, bolding, lines and diamonds are all used consistently to create a clear visual hierarchy.

Don’t hate on it just because you don’t like the look of it.
This is the language mentioned, it's an attempt to provide a common query language for NoSQL. Couchbase and Sqlite are involved, amongst others.

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http://groups.google.com/group/unql/?pli=1
Ooops...I forgot to include the NAME of said tool - Fiddler!
It's important to keep note of the fact that Hipmunk is not innovative about their UI/UX for the search results, but rather has done a great job at creating buzz and good marketing. ITA Software's free flight search tool ( http://matrix.itasoftware.com/ ) has had very similar looking search results of flight data for several years. Albeit their search form is more complex, but I like the complexity as it gives me more flexibility. I was rather surprised to see that Hipmunk copied ITA's search results almost completely without giving any credit.

ITA Software never wanted to compete with its customers, which means that you can't buy a ticket from them. I simply went directly to the airline websites to purchase the ticket.

I wish Hipmunk luck as they have a great job at marketing.
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Ah, I'm glad you agree. I suppose my reaction is that most people underestimate just how far you can go with this approach, and I am glad to see that you are not one of them; we agree that you can train someone to solve calculus problems, but not the skills of derivation.

Where we seem to disagree is about wether this approach should be used in isolation. Frankly, I think most people (successfully) trained in theory are bored by application so there is a use in multiple educational paths.

While application is a small subset of the available learning to someone interested in a field, it is often a sufficient subset to be a productively contributing member of society.
I think it's a reasonable caveat and don't find its inclusion undermining the OPs main thrust.
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To be fair, I wouldn't want to write a regex to validate an email address either. http://www.ex-parrot.com/pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html
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Yes, anyone can propose an article for deletion. However, I see two problems with what you've said.

First, yes, the "immune response" usually manages to produce some improvement, but often it just produces a deleted article because nobody who might have cared managed to notice. Whenever I observe those processes, I see two primary forces: many people with way too much time on their hands arguing policies without thinking, and people tired of trying to explain common sense via citations to chapter and verse of Wikipedia policy. (See also: wrestling a pig in mud.)

Second, the article links to various policy changes that suggest Wikipedia no longer considers "published author" a sufficient criteria for notability. That seems like a severe problem quite aside from this particular article.

Fundamentally, proposing an AfD means precisely one thing: "I think this article has negative value for Wikipedia, such that deleting it would improve Wikipedia.". All too often I see articles proposed for deletion (and "successfully" deleted) which have clearly positive value for Wikipedia.
I sympathize with the people in the article. I graduated right when the dot-bomb hit.

Making 8$ an hour cleaning out inkjet printers made me feel like I had wasted years of my life getting a degree.

I still feel that way now, but at least I make enough to live on.

If I got the chance to do it again, I would have dropped out of High School and just learned to code. Then, write Facebook before Zukerberg.
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I am willing to risk my karma by saying that people complaining about these things don't seem to get the following:

- Going to college doesn't mean you deserve a job more than someone else. Got an ivy league degree? A PhD? Get over it.

- America is still a country where one can post up signs on a telephone pole to help someone move boxes, clean a house, or drive a car. Not ideal right? Maybe, but these people can earn $200 a day paid in cash if they work hard. Putting up signs and actually doing the work is usually a psychological barrier to many people though.

- Being poor sucks, sure. But guess what -- learning to withstand it is a good skill to have. Perhaps one of the most indispensable ones a serious independent risk taking entrepreneur can have. If one can learn to be poor and deal with the associated social and practical problems, you'll have a fearlessness and sense of freedom that few office workers know.

- Having a job does not mean someone is successful. And not having a job does not mean someone is a failure. People often tie their self worth to their job title, and therefore every sales person is now a "vice-president", and data entry workers are "analysts" -- title inflation is easier than salary inflation. In many cases, having one's time to do nothing but reflect and self-improve is preferable to one of these jobs.
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If you don't have a seat when the music stops, just kiss your life goodbye.

That's the natural order. Scarcity and all that yap. We're fighting to do away with it. As it turns out, its freakin' hard.
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I was excited at first until I realized this is merely just an AWS-managed memcache cluster.

I was really hoping for another layer of abstraction away from the server level and more just an interface.

More like SimpleDB than RDS to use the AWS analogy.