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Of course Google, Microsoft et al were telling Ireland the other month that they couldnt raise their rates or they would leave. There is too much power here. Aligning tax rates globally will be necessary, like the EU did in Europe.

On the other hand if GE is paying 3.6% then some loopholes need closing. Remove the ways to avoid tax and you can cut the basic rate. That was the plan for the abortive Reagan tax simplification.

Governments are too weak for all the pork barrelling loophole generation and then get screwed by this type of evasion. Drastic tax simplification should be back on the agenda, but is as unlikely as ever.
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The most important thing I've learnt recently regarding Vim config is Pathogen. https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen

With it it's much easier to keep plugins separate and encourages putting your own tweaks in custom plugins.
Thanks everybody for your comments. I should probably point out a couple of things.

- The project is most definitely not ready for prime time yet, and I hadn't intended to publicly launch until I have two more major features ready. Thank you NoSunlight for letting the cat out of the bag!
- Those features are comments and iterations, which are both nearing completion.
- In its present state, the project is probably only suitable for competent Rails / Backbone.js hackers. It will probably be usable in the near future, but not yet. If you need a working alternative, sign up to Pivotal Tracker, it is well worth it.

My motivation for creating this project was twofold. One, I love Pivotal Tracker, to a degree that is probably not healthy. I use it extensively and, crucially, I use it for estimating projects. I completely understand the move to a paid model for PT, but it would impact my way of working considerably and become one of my main expenses. Secondly, I was kind of intrigued by how hard it would be to implement an alternative to what is, in my opinion, one of the most impressive web applications I've ever used. It turns out it's very hard!

For those of you who find this project offensive or unsatisfactory in any way, I genuinely and sincerely implore you to continue using PT. It rocks!
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Keeping Up with the Kardashians Season 6 Episode 10 : In fact, before the spectators were surprised to learn that Kendall takes the pill. Even Bruce, who was surprised that she perceived. Last week, Bruce said, acknowledging their daughters about their blessings and how blessed they are trying to compare it with others
Quantized electron energy levels. Niels Bohr pretty much nailed the "what" but completely missed the "why."

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Bohr_model
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If you're paying $20 an hour and you can't find a decent Java programmer, I'm not sure if it's a failure of the market. I wouldn't program for $20 an hour no matter where I lived, unless life sucked or I wasn't very good. And if pushed by desperation to take that job, I would be constantly trying to find another one.
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Well there's a few things here.

1. Company directors have a duty to maximise profits.

2. Companies have no obligation to maximise, and every right to minimise, their taxes.

3. The USA has one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world, including double taxation of repatriated earnings.

Is it any wonder companies are voting with their feet?

The more you rely on US exceptionalism, the more you place it at risk. If you tie taxes to residency of officers, they'll start moving to the Bahamas, Europe, Australia, Singapore and the like. You'll turn yourselves into a branch office. Good luck with that.
basic vedanta 101 - for all those familiar with Indic civilizational thought - PRINCIPAL KEY pursuit of life is the sublimation of the I - many upanishad ( sanskrit canons )texts - sources from 10000 years ago - nothing new here folks .. buddhism etc. are simpler formulations for a different age/context/motivation ..
> Aligning tax rates globally will be necessary

Yes. The US should lower its rates, not the other way around. The US can only get away with 35% because it's the largest economy in the world.

edit: to downvoters, I'd prefer you gave a reply than just metaphorically shaking your head.
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The nymwars demonstrate that dictatorships in "the cloud" are not always benign ones. Why is Google trying to control the identities of its users, and why doesn't it seem to care about the legitimate needs of certain groups of people?
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The thing is - blogging isn't work for me, it's play...
> But I am nothing, and so I am finally free to be myself.

But if I am nothing what entity is contemplating my nothingness? I most definitely must be a something - thinking of myself as a non-something is necessarily a delusion. It's illogical to engage in identity denial - instead I should try to engage in identity variation, approaching myself (and others!) with a different set of assumptions from time to time (which I believe was the spirit of the original post). It's silly to start a process of self-actualization by denying the very thing I am trying to actualize.

Or, as follows: I exist as a unique locus of space and time and so do you. I can share a room, a table, a meal, a conversation, even a lifetime with you but I can't be you - I can only be myself experiencing you. Your identity is yours and yours alone and you are always free to be yourself. In fact you are required to be yourself - after all who else could you be?

I intend to own my identity for the brief flickering moment that it exists. The mindless and momentous machinations of the universe have create the fragile consciousness that I am, and very soon these same machinations will erase me to nothingness. I see no reason to get a head start on being nothing.
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This is good. Reminds me of my observations on Hugh Everett's life and my conclusion to believe in anti-solipsism. http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2007/11/the_first_ant...

I'd encourage Paul to take the next step, and realize that not only are you nothing, what you do really doesn't matter at all (Perhaps very difficult for Paul to believe, given his accomplishments! But true anyway)

Once you realize you're nothing, and what you do in life won't really matter -- life is fundamentally and irrevocably absurd -- then you can really be free to make the most with what you have. Because just realizing you transcend labels doesn't take the existential pressure off until you realize you also transcend existence itself -- you are truly and deeply nothing. At that point, you realize that the decisions a person makes is the only thing they truly own. This is the beginning of freedom.

It all sounds a lot like existentialism 101. Good stuff!
I moved the site to Linode and set my swap incorrectly, so as soon as the memory ran out it fell over. Oops.
Also curious about the hackathon toolkit, what's in it?
This so true and they also censor all smaller sites they in favor of the ones they want to drive traffic too which incidentally are usually sites that have deal with ycombinator.

It's all a bit corrupt scam but this is nothing new.
Also, 9/11 was an inside job and there was a second shooter on the grassy knoll.
Even the East India Company fell eventually.
I did know that, but wasn't sure the "p" stood for "perl". The manual page for preg_match leads with "preg_match — Perform a regular expression match", so I went with that.
Nursing is a highly skilled job that requires college education, like programming, except that it requires college education.
I think this more relates to mindfulness as you work through a programming problem. I know that when I am very tired, I can sometimes succumb to the "random walk" approach to debugging, where my reasoning takes a rest and I start coming up with theories as to why the program isn't working, and start changing little things to see if they fix it. If it was graphical work, it might be changing + to -; if it was one of my current bugs right at this minute (relating to dynamic linking on OS X), it would be adding an extra indirection to a pointer lookup. This "approach" is sometimes faster than the mindful "think and analyse" way, but only by chance, and only when your approach was roughly correct to begin with. And I agree that the "think and analyse" technique is better; rest is usually better than the random poking, which can also introduce a bug that bites you a few weeks later.

But "thinking and analyzing" I think also applies to my problem with type theorists! They spend a lot of time coming up with new ways to use various formalisms to capture various intents of the programmer (like the deadlocks and accounting of effects in an uncle post), but they don't spend much time doing science: the kind of science that happens when you have a control group. They've got their heads down at too low a level.

That's a bit of an attack on the whole edifice of computer "science", but I think it's long overdue. I don't think we're going to find any magic formalism that revolutionizes the world, making writing programs of arbitrary complexity trivial for schoolchildren. I think we need to spend more time looking at actual people, their strengths and weaknesses, and crafting our formalisms around those - and that work is only honest if it actually measures effects on average joes doing work, not rework of existing programs by talented graduate students.
This doesn't seem like much of an improvement over Bitcoin. The main problem with Bitcoin as I see it is its inflation curve and fixed maximum circulation. This has a pyramid scheme-like effect where early adopters are disproportionately favoured, so that the accusation can be made that these systems are set up simply as a way of enriching their founders.
The article discusses the possibility of a Windows tablet that might sit alongside devices like the iPad. Reducing the argument to this dichotomy of "the iPad is great, everything else fails" is exactly what the article aims to counter.
There are other markets, some people are looking for something else entirely. Maybe..just maybe, Windows 8 can offer an alternative.
I used to use GoDaddy as my primary registrar years ago when they were essentially the only company offering domains under $10, back when $35 was the market norm. I decided to go test them again after reading your comment. I still have an account, so the comparison would be relatively fair. This was my experience, as compared to my usual registrar.

Name.com
1. Search domain name.
2. Click to add the .com to my cart.
3. Click to continue to my cart.
4. Login.
5. Click to pay with saved information. Done.

GoDaddy
1. Search domain name.
2. Click to add the .com to my cart.
3. In page popup with "STOP! Don't miss your chance to SAVE 65!" (for the net, org, info). Spammy. Click "Don't show this again." I just want a domain.
4. Default registration length was listed as 5 years. This is unacceptable. Click to change to 1 year. Just give me the domain.
5. Click next to arrive at privacy options. No, I just want a domain.
6. Click next to arrive at activate your domain, with email and hosting options. I don't care, I just want a domain.
7. Click next to arrive at my cart.

At this point, GoDaddy has already lost. I can have a confirmation email from Name.com in my inbox by the time I arrive at GoDaddy's billing information. GoDaddy does have a huge market: people that are new to buying domains and would like to see all the available options. Another registrar is preferable once you know your way around and just want a domain.

Guess which market reads Hacker News.
I think this ability is really valuable, but there's so many barriers to
people getting experience with it.

To do it, you have to venture into the unknown without a map. You have to
make the map yourself, and you have to figure out how to do that. You don't know how long that will take, but it is likely to take quite a while. While you're working at it you will not have a very clear understanding of exactly what your position is, and you won't be able to articulate it clearly to others. And of course you will have to go against what "everybody knows" (but really just think they know).

There's so many barriers to this that come from our social and
institutional norms, where it's generally expected that you can explain
what you're doing, that you can say why it is better, that you can estimate
how long it will take, etc, and where it's frowned upon if you can't do
these things. And where it's generally frowned upon to "have the arrogance" to "go against" what people of high-standing came up with or take to be true.
If a person is "truly and deeply nothing" then how is that person making decisions? I can understand feeling like nothing - but something has to exist to have a feeling of nothingness in the first place.
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If it's a rule it's a rule of programming in general, not OO.
Good job posting this up at least people will have a chance to read the truth a bit.

The corrupt ycombinator mods are mostly PDT and are therefore probably sleeping in on a sunday morning therefore haven't had a chance to delete this yet.

Usually they have someone sitting there almost 24/7 censorship this type of stuff just as they do smaller sites that are not affiliated with them.

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Let's say we have a village with just 4 families, 1 for each possible case. The names of the boys are b0,b1,b2,b3 and the names of the girls are g0,g1,g2,g3 (as no two names are the same):

b0, b1

b2, g0

g1, b3

g2, g3

If we draw a random family that has at least one boy, we get all the families except the last one. And 2/3 of those have a girl in them, as opposed to 1/3rd that doesn't. So its 66% to find a girl.

However, if I ask you about a particular boy, I could ask about b0, b1, b2 or b3.

b0: sibling is b1

b1: sibling is b0

b2: sibling is g0

b3: sibling is g1

So for half of the possible names I choose, the sibling is a boy, and for half it is a girl.

Assuming the name was chosen at random from the existing names of the boys in the village, that makes the chance 50% to find a sibling girl again.
I wonder why the government needs to impose 35% tax on companies. Could it have something to do with inefficiency?
Seriously? The market can barely support one of these, much less multiple.
Thanks @almost for the feedback. The thing is, the blog post isn't written by us (@interviewstreet), it was written by some person who bumped onto our site. Would be careful before posting such dramatic stuff.

That said, we're bringing in real-world problems pretty soon. Do check it out :)
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Pop philosophy doesn't stand up to that kind of logical scrutiny. It's usually bike shed painting rationalized by ego or emotion.

I love the near-perfect unintentional parody of the Jewish tale of three old men arguing over who was most unworthy.
While I sympathise with OP's frustration at others making money from their work - there is provision in UK copyright law: "using any work, for the purpose of reporting current events, with sufficient acknowledgement, is a valid exception to copyright".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_dealing_in_United_Kingdom_...
Prepare yourself for a 400 GB download. The software to process this quantity of data must be truly massively scaled.
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I do not mean "truly and deeply nothing" in some sort of sense that it is impossible to perceive you, or in the sense that somehow you should be depressed. I meant "nothing" in the sense that in the cosmic scale of things, no matter what you do, nobody will ever remember it and it will make no significant difference ten thousand years after you are gone. Yes, in a very temporary way, you have the properties of existence, but the time-frame is so narrow, your impact so minuscule, that the limit approaches zero. I'm not sure if there is some other word for it -- nothing seemed the most appropriate.

This is not nihilism. As I said, understanding the astonishingly small (and basically non-existent) nature of your life is one of the necessary steps to understand what it really means to exist in the first place. That is, as Paul says, if you think you are X or Y, then you are never freed to be a better version of yourself. This is because you are comparing yourself to some external standard that you can never be. Likewise, if you think that somehow "being a better person" is a journey that leads you somewhere that has lasting consequences you are also lying to yourself -- it really doesn't matter. What you need to understand that it is the daily decisions to be a better person that matter, not the comparison between yourself today and some future state that you are headed towards. This is the same mistake that Paul describes, only he is talking about comparing yourself to some label, while I am talking about comparing yourself to some future version of yourself that you are headed towards.

Does that make sense?
It's a complicated issue. I actually kind of admire him, for his ability to take a politically incorrect side in an issue that's more complicated than people would like to believe. Even if it is just because he's a bit of a jerk.

That said, I'm afraid to touch GoDaddy due to the horror stories about their bait-and-switch tactics.
William Cook's response to Paul Graham's explanation for why Arc isn't especially object-oriented:

http://wcook.blogspot.com/2011/04/paul-graham-on-objects-in-...
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That is event-driven code. A typical accept_connection only returns after receiving a connection event. The I/O code in handle_connection blocks until the event that data can be read/written. The event handling just happens in the OS instead of in userspace with poll/select/etc.
I disagree on both accounts, even in manufacturing scaling has it's limits. Being able to mass produce can't infinitely reduce costs, sooner of later you'll hit a barrier (cost of natural or human resource) which can't be reduced.

Secondly no-one has permanent dominance in anything, how many market leaders from 100 years ago are still leaders today ? - it's purely a case of how long you can hold dominance for.
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Off topic but is there any reason you're not interested in launching your own startup if you're that good on the technical side?
"The mathematical rigor of a pure functional language like Haskell allows deeper reasoning to be done, and thus more powerful abstractions to be introduced."

Allows or requires? I guess I never really understood the difference between reasoning about code and actually getting shit done.

The thing with Haskell is it is almost like two languages in one. There is the Haskell you learn, with no side effects, and everything is lazy, and you are basically just binding stuff up and it gets evaluated at the end.

Then you have the Haskell that programs actually get written in, with do blocks and actions, if I remember correctly, and it looks a lot more iterative than functional. With actual side effects happening all the time.

The syntax, which is probably the hardest part of Haskell, is totally different.

Very confusing for someone learning text-book Haskell, then jumping into actually maintaining and writing programs, you almost think you have learnt the wrong language.
Totally agree. However interesting and inspiring these posts and toughs might be, the ideas can be really applied verbatim only by people in their 20's - no family, no commitments, and so on.

Similarly to @mjijackson I'm a husband and a father. If I made a decision to become 'nothing' I might benefit myself, but that would be a disaster to others that depend on me.

Somehow I find most of these Zen-like thoughts quite selfish, but I'm open to suggestions, perhaps I'm missing an important point here...
Seriously? If there's one thing this particular market needs, it's competition.
I'm sorry, but this article is saying a lot of nothing... and I felt like I wasted my time when finished reading it.
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I'm already in the silent jail, so my comments won't be seen. I can insult everyone here and nothing happens. Look: your mother is fat and has a moustache. Boo.
That was really the only interesting part of the article. They should have done a whole article on quick exit tutoring rather than the same old fluff we've all heard before because it's more insightful of where things are headed. Just wait until we see a high profile implosion like Groupon probably will.
Just post something complimentary to a YC company, then they will release you from the silent jail.
This post is great, and from reading the comments, I'm happy to see plenty of people being touch. So not having read the Zen Buddhist book on my shelf, I do have this to say... I am not nothing, I'm amazing. While I may disagree with others, they are beautiful and I have much love for them. Nobody is nothing.
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This is by design. I'm not sure early adopters are favored at all because their "investments" will gradually lose value as the number of Bitcoins increases. If anything it's the opposite, as I understand it.

I've read varying opinions on the matter but it seems that the idea of a fixed currency that inflates at a predictable rate was a design decision meant to keep Bitcoin usable for certain kinds of transactions, i.e. exchanging money between currencies at low rates or giving money to your friend or favorite cause without an intermediary such as a bank. It isn't meant to wholly replace the dollar or euro or yen as far as I can tell.
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OO advocates don't generally consider C++ to be a particularly OO language, so I don't see what Bjarne has to do with anything, you are just reinforcing the original point: critics of OOP are often criticising things that have little at all to do with the original ideas of OOP.
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Very interesting, but my question is, what are the speed of these chips compared to conventional ones. The main problem with the human brain is that while it is fantastic at parallel processing, the speed at what it processes information is only a few MHz i think. The reverse is true for computers, great speed, terrible parallel. If these chips solve the problem of parallel processing but keep speeds the same it would be a great step for computers.
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