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Judging from the concept of "decision fatigue" outlined in that NY Times article the other day * , you're better off with thumbs up/down since it's less work to decide that than to have to choose 2 or 3 or 4 stars for an OK article.

* https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/magazine/do-you-suffer-fr...
nitpicking... first line "It is over a one year since "
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I'm not referring to "oh noes," I know the difference between intentional colloquialisms and misspellings.

I'm referring to the repeated use of "your" instead of the correct word, "you're."
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You are assuming that all the objects that will be accessed are known up front, before any one of them is accessed. Is that what happens in Python?
It's not really about the spelling error itself. It's about the fact that you don't have the time to look for things like that, because of start-up life.

My point is that if that detail is missed, I begin to worry about other, more important details - such as security and the safety of my data.

Think of it as the "brown M&M test."
I enjoy Dada, Fluxus, Procedural and Avant Garde.

Cant speak for painting but after a couple of failed attempts to pick up the guitar in my teens I one day started playing what I felt like instead of trying to play some fast hard rock riff, instant success and now I play guitar every day and starting to be genuinely good at it. So, paint what you feel like. Explore other painters and artists and try to copy their work while still maintaining your personal touch to it. Get a mentor or show what you do on some site for showing art, feedback is really important!
No, that's not it. The video I mean is completely different. It wasn't Apple. It was Microsoft, and it was introduced by Bill Gates.
It wasn't a real device. It was done with special effects, to show what might be possible in the future.
Except that only works if you're famous, there have already been dozens of examples of people whose online identity (and even offline) is mostly accessed through their pseudonym and who got restricted or banned from G+ for using that pseudonym. Violet Blue (from TFA) is one (and, you know, not only is it her "official real name" she's given two techtalks at Mountain View), Doctor Popular an other one[2], Skud[0] yet an other one, and he listed a bunch of other accounts suspended for a number of name-related reasons including pen names, adding pseudonyms to your real name or somebody at google not liking your real name[1] (the latter being VB's issue but she was far from the only one).

And of course, being banned from G+ for using your real name is one thing, but it also partially or completely lock you out of other, unrelated Google services (Reader, Picasa, Data Liberation, your Google profile, potentially GMail and Google Chat). G+ is a death trap.

[0] http://infotrope.net/2011/07/22/ive-been-suspended-from-goog...

[1] http://infotrope.net/2011/07/25/preliminary-results-of-my-su...

[2] http://www.docpop.org/2011/08/googles-antisocial-behavior/
I'm actually surprised this doesn't happen more often in the world of SEO spam. The obvious way to solve this is for the Google bot to give sites a Google referrer string when it comes to index them. That way the bot would see those sites just as a search user does. Of course that means in the long run, Google bot would also have to pose with a fake USER_AGENT identifier to make sure it actually gets the real content.
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sorry after reading the article im assuming you arent a native english speaker? (just based on the tone throughout) not trying to be a dick about grammar or anything
"If I had reputational stock I'd be IPOing right now." I love that! lol

I'm sure that I'm a little biased living in Silicon Valley but here being a geek and being sexy is not mutually exclusive. Being a "programmer" is respectable but being a tech entrepreneur is respected much more.
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I got this simple projection from [1]: http://imageshack.us/f/24/laxpkg.png/

[1] http://www.btinternet.com/~se16/js/mapproj.htm
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I am not native English speaker. I live in Poland. Would be glad for showing me my language mistakes.
Use spaces between arithmetic operators. You've already got them around the = sign. It looks much better, and prevents this problem:

int i = 10;
int *p = &i;

int j = 100 / i; // j==10 right? right

int k = 100 / *p; // k==10 right? right

Also, any decent syntax highlighter would have caught the latter problem. The problem in the blog post was much more subtle, because most (all?) syntax highlighters won't catch it.
There's no land rail connection from Alaska to the more populated parts of North America, so really the choices are ship and road--- the rail connection from Alaska to the rest of the US/Canada happens via a rail barge between Whittier (near Anchorage) and Seattle. But if you're going to send it by sea to Seattle anyway, why not just load up the ships in Russia and not bother with the tunnel?

Might change if the long-proposed connection between the Alaskan rail network and the main North American network were ever built.
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I know you live in Poland and you already crossed your living cost threshold but in a more expensive country your report means I need to save up at least a year of living expenses because what you brought in would simply not pay my bills.

While I certainly don't live frugally I don't own a car and the money is merely for things like rent, food and such. I have a baby girl though and my wife is currently at home. When she starts working again the picture would certainly change.

TL/DR Not so easy to replicate if your cost of living is higher.
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Thanks - I've started getting a bit grumpy about coding rules that come without any explanation of why you should do something (simply saying something is "best practise" often being the worst "explanation" of all).
"The rest of folks are compensated at prevailing market rates for their technical skills -- and incidentally, American programmers are paid better than in almost any other country."

Not so. The supply of MDs, CPAs, and lawyers is kept artificially low by accreditation bodies.
I'm amazed at how many "Groupon for X" startups have been popping up. In this group there is Munch On Me (restaurants) and Aisle50 (groceries), but if you look through a site like http://startupli.st/startups there are a lot of others. Opez also says they want to turn independent professionals into their own Groupons, which doesn't really equate. I presume they really mean giving the independent professionals the ability to publish their own coupons.

With as much criticism as GroupOn has received, and the suspect way they have measured their success it seems there must be a better model of comparison. Saying you want to be the LivingSocial of X would likely give a better impression.

Still, I'm not sure applying that business model to a specific industry like restaurants or groceries will lead to success. For restaurants, LivingSocial and GroupOn already give out a lot of restaurant deals. Google will soon be moving in the market also. It's quickly becoming saturated. How long can restaurants give away meals for half price?

Aisle50 is at least attacking an area that isn't really covered by existing businesses.
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>Political borders remain among the most fundamental obstacles to human progress around the world.

citation?

There has been many examples where throwing unrelated groups into the same country can causes serious strife. Why would it be different on a global scale? You still have to allocate resources, provide security, make laws etc...

The author makes this very point further down:

>A more stable and peaceful arrangement for Sudan would be to focus on independence for Darfur and South Sudan sooner rather than later, allowing them to rebuild themselves as smaller states at peace with their neighbors instead of facing Khartoum's persistent and nefarious undermining from within.

So it's not the borders that are an obstacle to 'human progress', it's the arbitrary way in which they were drawn by colonial powers.
Because the proper Windows way is to specify where to create the temporary file; for example the developer can choose between the user-specific 'temp' folder, or the 'temporary internet files' folder, or the folder returned by GetTempPath(). Some old programs rely on the temp folder being shared between application, others don't. And then you run into access issues - sometimes on Vista you don't have write access to whatever GetTempPath() returns and you'll have to find something else, like the user dir returned by SHGetSpecialFolderLocation or any of its predecessors or new versions, and tack "\Temp" onto that yourself.

So, to get back to your question, the posix compatibility layer in Windows is very old and back then all the above didn't exist and they had to make a choice on how to implement the function. Back then (this decision may have been made as early as the late 1980's), using C:\ wasn't all that stupid an idea; either way, the point was that the file would be deleted when the file handle was closed anyway, so it's not like C:\ would be polluted with all sorts of files.

Of course those assumptions changed in the past 20 years, but you can't just change the behavior of your core OS functions because you don't know how it will break old applications. If you're interested in Windows development, the The Old New Thing blog goes into detail on issues like this.
By the way, bit off topic but when and how did you decide to increase price? Did you just wanted to see how price sensitive your customers are or some costs increased for you?
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I have a baby girl and non working wife too plus just buying brand new car (with 50/50 loan). Moreover it pays all my bills (I am living in a own house) and I feel quite comfortable already. All I can recommend to you is moving to Poland ;)
I wasn't defending vim over your editor, just answering the question of when there are valid times to do 10 lines of block change. 2 more that came up for me yesterday:

We changed the data format being sent over JSON now I needed to:

1) make a bunch of int declarations into float declarations, fortunately those tend to bunch up.

2) Change a bunch of getInt calls to getFloat calls, but those are also bunched up together.
Thank you for sharing your perspective, although I have thought about such things, never in the depth that you relate them here.
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Would be glad for showing me my language mistakes.

I'm trying to parse this, and I'm sure what you mean. "I'd be glad if you could point out any other language mistakes"
HN should get rid of the downvote button, that would do infinitely more for karma quality than a million stupid formula ideas. Since we can't see the actual score of individual posts anymore there is no way to determine if they are overrated anyway.

On top of that, it's semantically difficult for me to grok what the downvote button is supposed to be used for. Should I downvote posts simply because I don't agree with them? Should I downvote garbage instead of flagging it?

If pg got rid of that button, the meaning of karma would be cleared up, both for posts as well as for users. Upvote comments you think are high quality (or because you agree with them), flag things that are not supposed to be here, and simply ignore all the rest.

It already works like that for stories, let's just go one step further and treat posts the same way.
I wish they were standard GCC behaviour. Sometimes when I rapidly make a toy program, I forget something important, like including stdio.h and without warnings, I won't know until the program crashed.
LinkedIn recommendations are a joke really, everyone can always get their friends to say nice things about them. E.g. one former colleague of mine, known as "Captain Panic" for well-deserved reasons, has recommendations praising him for being calm in a crisis! And I think everyone on the hire-side is well aware of this problem.

On an unrelated note, I expected that to be the website of Martina Hingis.
One of the big reasons that lawyers and doctors make a lot more money is because they use regulation and the coercive power of the state for the benefit of their cartel. You are going to get a top of the line lawyer and pay through the nose because your business, freedom, even your life may depend on it. The number of lawyers and doctors is limited to an artificial shortage due to bar exams and number of residency spots. Non-US bar exams and residencies, no matter how qualified, are not recognized. That means a top neurosurgeon from the most prestigious hospital in any country can not practice in the US unless he spends 6+ years in a US residency program.

Now, does that mean that programmers should clamor for more regulation in their trade? Of course not! for one, that would mean that the current lead of the US in the tech industry would be replaced by over-priced, substandard products and harm the culture of innovation and freedom. Instead, if many of these regulations in other areas were brought down, young programmers making 60k won't have to pay exhorbitant sums for simple things like getting a root canal or registering a business or fighting off patent harassment.
He also has the Ruby habit of choosing a clever but not terribly meaningful name for everything.
I would think the subject of "what is life" is too subjective to chart onto a simple line graph.
Interesting post. I have to agree with you that there is something wrong with our line of business. I think part of the problem is that we are still feeling the affects of the "lights out operations" fad from the nineties. This was when "Big IT" convinced all the companies to automate an outsource. That's when we first became a liability to our companies instead of an asset. Since then there's been a couple of distractions in the IT industry (Y2K, dot.com bubble, and the current get-rich-with-the-cloud phase), but for the most part I still feel business sees us as an unfortunate necessity. My kids have had a keyboard in front of them since they could sit up straight, but neither of them are interested in an IT career. I think we are a lot like plumbers now; everyone wants a flush toilet, but nobody wants to deal with the pipes.
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Eat that google :P
Also don't forget debt. Most MDs and DDSs I know in the US have 350K+ of debt. On top of that, they have to worry about malpractice suits. The work is very demanding physically and emotionally. While I can work from home on a rainy day, a doctor can't.
> It's ironic that, although the robots are remote controlled, the operators still have to work close to the highly damaged and radioactive reactors. There is no communications infrastructure, combining wired and wireless capabilities, that would allow the operators to do their work from a safer location.

FWIW, this is ridiculous. Even your average 3G connection should be sufficient to provide a usable video feed, and the workers wouldn't have to try to use laptops while in bulky suits.
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> I don't own a car and the money is merely for things like rent, food and such. I have a baby girl though and my wife is currently at home.

My apologies if this is unsolicited and unwelcome advice, but have you considered supplementing your income by replicating Chris' efforts on a much more relaxed schedule and in your spare time? Blogging handsomely supplements my income, without much effort (or time) required on my part.
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The "tycoons" are looked down upon, right?
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There's a great, very detailed retrospective on Microsoft's STM implementation efforts here:

http://www.bluebytesoftware.com/blog/2010/01/03/ABriefRetros...
I personally would choose Argentina but you know how it is with family.

I could probably blackmail the grandparents into paying a kind of ransom so I don't leave the country for an extended period :)
There are two issues with this:

* People have seen their G+ account restribanned while using their real names, with the restriban not lifted even after providing a governmental id, which was deemed insufficient

* When a significant portion of your ecosystem is moving to G+ (as is happening in the Python community for instance, many high-profile pythonistas now make significant use of G+ for info broadcasting and discussion) not being able to interact with them gets annoying, if not downright problematic
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Awww, swype was a minor selling point for me, I made sure to get a phone with it.
Sounds cool, will see it in the next update
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Quite a few good replies in this thread already. Let me just add a couple points:

Engineering, done right, is an invisible art. Doctoring and lawyering done right are intensely personal activities, service businesses with one-on-one human attention. Good engineers fade into the background. Engineers make objects and the objects speak for themselves. You probably can't name the engineer who recorded and mixed the sound on your favorite new record. You almost certainly can't name the engineers who designed all your local bridges and rail systems. We don't even know how many people designed, say, the smart cover for the iPad 2. All of this is by design.

Engineers also rip and mix and burn and create things that are the sum total of a lot of individual efforts. I don't even know if I'm the engineer responsible for the test software that tested the wafer that spawned the chip that went into your cell phone that filters the RF frequencies in your cellular radio. There are very good odds that I am: I wrote such software, and last I heard it was still running and my old company is still selling chips. Again, this is how proper engineering works. Many of the best people you'll ever meet work outside the spotlight, quietly making their corner of the system better.

Engineering is a worldbuilding activity. The objects become famous, not us, but even the objects' fame is fleeting. The marvel of one age is the boring infrastructure of the next. But, hey, at least you get to change the world. Fame isn't everything.
Sometimes an essay, like a good movie, requires a suspension of disbelief. The writer paints a picture of a future world and the reader is expected to "play along" with him in order for him to complete and state his vision.

I found I could not suspend disbelief enough to follow along with this writer. While he means well, using examples like the Sudan or the Kurds is cherry-picking at the extreme. After all, his thesis is "maps without borders" It's one thing to look at a government that's been around for 20 years (or, in the Kurd example, not really existing yet) and make some generalization. It's another thing entirely to apply such generalizations to the rest of the world. He failed with this.

He also meandered quite a bit around resources: pipelines, roads, and such. I'm sure there was a point there, but heck if I could grasp it.

This is just not such a good article. I'd like to see these ideas explored in a more cogent fashion though. I think there's an interesting concept in there.
Yep. Although to be fair ... some deserve to be called that.
Keep in mind that Double Recall works with news publishers. The number one thing that publishers need is more money to pay for content production. Most publishers are toying with a paywall model right now. I hope they go the Double Recall route. I'd rather type in two words once a day and have an advertiser pay for my content than pull out my credit card to hop over a paywall.

So, here's the alternative. If the Double Recalls have figured out a nice sustainable way to pay for a good chunk of the journalism you enjoy, wouldn't that make the world a better place?
Here's my "What language to learn next" bookmarks (oh, and I wrote lots of IBM APL 2 code. I liked it)

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/fbo0p/ive_run_o...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2444508

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2536309

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4312

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/jiies/perlis_la...

http://hacklash.posterous.com/how-to-choose-your-next-progra...

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Subject:Computer_programming_la...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2906964
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Didn't mean to bring in an iphone vs android battle here. But I'm curious to know the reason why the author targets at Android rather than iphone. There seems to be a concensus that iphone users are more willing to pay for apps. Does that mean he should have made a lot more, should he work on iphone apps instead?