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Try moving your point to (defun... and pressing << C-c ' >>. It should work with org-mode bundled in Emacs 23; if not, you can get the newest version from http://orgmode.org.

With org-babel enabled, you can actually run this code, or use it in literate-programming style to write programs.
Learn by doing - yes, this is very important. I also like the points "post your code for review" and "ask for help". I guess you can improve the quality of your code pretty quickly with a little bit of help from others.
Exactly. Speaking as someone who was at one point unemployed, the first thing you need to do is take responsibility for your situation, rather than displacing the blame to anyone else.

A lot of people just don't want to work hard. One of the people in that article was bitching and moaning about working a few hours on weekends!

Beggars truly cannot be choosers. It is really not that hard to cut costs and live within your means when the internet provides infinite entertainment for free, as well as comparison price shopping, etcetera.
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I agree, that would be great. Let's start a company that does that.
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Inheritance. Gah, why won't this bad idea die!

Shared calling protocol, shared data sub-structures, fixed compile-time equivalence hierarchy, all clumped together.

Go gets it right. Cut the linkage between composition and equivalence. Composition handles inclusion/merging of existing objects. Interfaces handle equivalence of objects. Interfaces can have hierarchies, but there's no one true hierarchy baked into the objects they describe.
In this case, if a timeout is required, it’s recommended to
use asynchronous IO which naturally supports interruptions.
Unfortunately, asynchronous IO also makes code more
convoluted and difficult to write.

if you are bad at Async Coding ;)
$68.40/month is the price for the smallest instance with only 1.3 GB. The biggest instance with 68 GB costs $1,612.80 per month.
So a PhD in education educates me about to educate others about education?
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Saw this in the article:

> "The most difficult part of the job search is waiting for permission to give up"

What exactly does it mean for someone to "give up" on a job search? Unless you have a significant other, won't you eventually starve and/or be kicked out of your residence? Or does "giving up" mean collecting unemployment insurance/welfare/disability insurance ad infinitum?

Genuinely curious here, do not mean this to be a loaded question.
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It seems to be a memcache compatible interface. So its really hard to tell what they used underneath the covers. Perhaps a modified memcache for there needs...
I don't think anyone would deny that a degree can sometimes help you attain a specific job.

The "lie" is the notion that without a degree, your job choices will be limited to burger flipper at McDonalds. With a degree, any degree at all, your dream job will fall into your lap and you'll be paid handsomely to do it. Obviously neither are true, but that is what pre-college aged students are regularly told.

If you have a love of aeronautical engineering, university is a fantastic place to study what you love. If you land a great job upon completion, even better. However, if you only have a love of money, studying aeronautical engineering is a waste of time. There are better and easier ways to make your fortune.
Device drivers. You have a base class, device, which supports at the minimum, read() and write(). Then you subclass to block and character devices, and so from there. It's a real world example (Unix does it, although in C) and it's simple enough to explain the concepts.
Not really, considering that RAM is RAM.
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What is possibly the only coherent comment in this entire discussion is already being down-voted. Sorry Hacker News, but your "cultivated community" demonstrably fails to perpetuate very little more than a disinterested, self-serving, center-right frame of reference with a strong undercurrent of elitism.
Is there a part of the typical web stack that they don't offer a solution for or does this pretty much cover it. I know you can always run whatever they don't yourself just on another ec2 instance, but I think you can offload everything (but your app) now to their services.
Simula67, the version most identify as Simula proper, actually evolved concurrently with Smalltalk.

Rick DeNatale's memoir has a great article debunking some early OO myths -- http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/2006/07/29/about-me
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"Freedom: To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing." - Ayn Rand
I was thinking that they might mean social pressures, waiting until they can give up without coming across as a complete failure or something like that.
Scalzi's article describes a fairly atypical poverty experience. It's a very inaccurate description for most American poor people.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1713461
Define step. 1 and how to be that 'good techie'?
I understand why CLV is an interesting number. Maybe it is only really useful to know that you can spend money attract profitable customers. I used to think my business is awesome because I largely get repeat and referral business. When I started thinking about CLV I started to understand that I had no real formula for acquiring new customers. It's important to show you can take active steps to bring in new customers.
Yep, nothing wrong with being jobless.
It's being money-less that's annoying.
Non-technical people looking for technical cofounders no longer have an excuse not to learn how to code ;)
As a hiring manager, you've got to sell yourself. If you've got all these negatives and they're the only thing on your resume or in your cover letter, it's going to be difficult to give you some of my limited time to talk about how you really could be better.

Do me the favor and sell yourself - WHY should I hire you, of all people, when you're competing against potentially dozens or hundreds of people (who, mostly, just fire and forget resumes at monster and career builder).

Nearly anything you can do to stand out from the crowd will be in your best interests.

Network your ass off. Go to user groups, meetups, anything at all. I've never hired someone cold, from Monster or whatever. Why should I risk it, when I've got some similar with a personal recommendation from a known-quantity?
Sometimes I'll skim the documentation on a certain technology if I expect I'll be asked on it, but most of the time I don't really do any sort of preparations. My experiences cover a lot of the technical questions I'm asked, so I usually have a quick answer.
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Programming is becoming more complicated over time. The increase in complexity will offset the increased availability of basic literacy

Is it? Python will do in a few lines what would take forty lines in Fortran. I was programming for the Mac in 1995, when you'd spend thousands of lines just trying to get the machine to do things which a new Xcode project now does by default without any lines of code.
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So I tried really hard to make a sense of this separation between Smartphone and Feature phones, and I find it to be very shallow.
irc bots. Or chat bots in general since kids are not familiar with irc nowadays.

It's an amazingly useful teaching tool, since it's real enough to understand it and fake enough that you don't care about taking the bits apart and replacing them.
Also, it has a lot of points where you can go and improve the design (extract interfaces, get away with inheritance and use delegation, then get away with objects, then end up with a lisp interpreter etc etc).
Backblaze encrypts your data with your own key, but you can't restore your data unless you give Backblaze your key. When you restore, step 1 is to enter your key into their web page. Also, if you order a hard drive with your files, the hard drive is shipped with your unencrypted files on it.

(I'm the author of Arq)
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If you are following hacker news you probably have seen the code academy ... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2914854

Depending on your level, might be interesting for you.
Not to pick on this too much, but elitism is a good thing.

Do you want 1000 random links from the internet or 10 ordered blue links on Google?

Do you want to send your child to a "mediocre" school or have them operated on by a "mediocre" surgeon, or do you want them to go to the best schools and have the best medical care?

If you are an investor, do you want to invest in mediocre companies? If you are searching for work, do you want to work at a middle of the road place? And if you are an employer/entrepreneur, do you want anything other than the best employees?

Everyone is an elitist when they are doing the selecting. Some people don't like it when they are on the other side of the selective filter. But let's not kid ourselves, elitism is not an "undercurrent" and it's not objectionable by any means. It's the whole ball of wax in any functioning society.
Don't be obtuse. A PhD means you've done research towards improving the ability to educate others.
Why not put them on Amazon's Turk site and have people vote for their favorite one, for a small sum
Fiddler can do the same for you on windows.
A PhD in Education certifies you to do research in education to potentially teach others about in the future. The intent is to generate new ideas and try new things, and the PhD is a qualification that you can approach that in (hopefully) a scientific manner, and that your results will be useful and relevant to your field.

tl;dr: No, to research about education.
You get annoyed when someone goes to the trouble of giving you a photo they considered important enough to print and share with you? I understand that living simply is a goal, but that sounds a little silly. Your comment makes me wonder if you stab these unlucky photos with a pencil and burn them before "trashing it directly" — presumably before the jerk can leave the room so that they understand the existential crisis they have narrowly averted. :)

It's safe to say that humans are a sentimental and even nostalgic bunch. We crave individuality and expression, and photos are the ultimate simple expression of our life and times. Getting prints back is a joy greater than Christmas (for those into that sort of thing) any day of the year. It's actually kind of addictive, and having physical copies of those moments trumps online sharing for all of the obvious tactile reasons.

As long as people have kids and crushes, books-in-progress and wallets there will be printed photos... and thank goodness for that.
Get a pay bump if you are already employed as a teacher in most public school systems.

If you are not already employed as a teacher in the public school systems, it makes it harder for you to find a job as such (at least during a budget crunch) since you come with a higher price tag.
Yes. But what do they do afterwards for food/rent?
If you can get freelance writing work, you're familiar with freelancing.
Why not hustle that more, and look for freelance work, rather than a job? This is news.yc after all!
> I think there was also a culture factor, I was making a transition from a blue-collar culture to a white-collar one, and expectations & knowledge of expectations are different, in many subtle ways.

That happened to me, too, when I was 18. I had grown up in a white-collar family, but it still didn't occur to me that I could, say, take a taxi to get to work on time when I missed the train. Until my boss yelled the suggestion at me over the phone.

In the year before that, I'd been doing minimum-wage work and lazing about reading computer science textbooks and writing C++ in a local university computer lab.
If Backblaze loses your data and it's your only backup, you need to re-upload all your data. If that takes a long time and your hard drive fails during that time, you lose your data.

(disclosure: I wrote Arq)
There's another giant advantage to renaming in an IDE over a text editor: You can be sure not to clobber any other variable/method references.

Here's an example, I want to change the name of my MyClass.Execute() method to something more descriptive. In an IDE, I right click and rename and I'm done.

In vim or other plaintext editors this is practically impossible without manually inspecting each call-site. Is "foo.Execute()" a reference to MyClass.Execute() or YourOtherClass.Execute()? Without actually parsing the program it's tough to know.

I love using vim, and I'm getting better at it the more I use it, but this is one of the major productivity drains I encounter that an IDE does way better.
>1mm searches/mo seems bigger than the set of "techcrunch + hacker news readers"

It's the old reddit crew, so that's a big chunk of loyal users right there.
No. It educates you to do ground-breaking research in education and advance the state of the educational art.
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Well, they're joining that virtual country by choice. People frequently enter partnerships where they don't like the counter-party, but they realize the partnership makes sense for both of them.
Sounds like the beginning of Full Metal Jacket.
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Yeah, me too. I spent a couple of years of my childhood living in a trailer while attending a parochial school (because the local public schools sucked.)
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Ability to communicate your ideas is an important skill. Why do you disagree?
a book, yes, plus 10 years of experience, understanding algorithms, data structures, operating systems, databases, hardware architecture, discrete math, automata, programming languages, etc....

yep.. anyone can do it from a book.
I'm almost certain they could offer it cheaper and have chosen not to. If you look at AWS' history they tend to price higher than they need to and then aggressively lower the prices after the service is established. I've always assumed this is part of a very conservative business plan where they establish the actual cost of running the service (as opposed to projections) over time. Once they've established they can actually run the service as cheaply as projected they lower the price accordingly.

Remember Amazon isn't a startup. It is an established company with shareholders to keep happy. Given that I think the above strategy is a sensible one (and is probably why AWS has been profitable from the very beginning)
Arq does incremental backups... but does it do incremental restores? i.e. if I have already restored the backup to another computer, can I later fetch just what has changed? This is the only feature missing from duplicity[1] to make it perfect.

[1] http://duplicity.nongnu.org/
Congrats on the new startup, Paul!

My only caveat to you is that you're flat out wrong that film is dying. Compared to the now-exploded market for entry-level and above pro-sumer SLRs like the Canons, film is tiny. However, the actual market for film has stayed pretty steady, thanks to new players like Lomography introducing medium format cheaply to a new generation of artistic kids.

I'm actually sympathetic to your outlook because when I was your age I used to roll my eyes at the idea of film. I had my 5D tricked out with a 14L/35L/85 II L/200L kit in my bag. Eight years later I'm shooting almost exclusively on a Hasselblad, but my Mamiya 7 and Mamiya C330 and FujiFilm G617 are all well loved (and I still have fun with a Holga).

Here's my suggestion to you, one photography obsessed startup guy to another: set aside a weekend to bike around with a rented Hasselblad 503 or Mamiya 7. You'll need three rolls of film: Ilford FP4 Plus 125, Kodak Portra VC400 and FujiFilm Velvia 50.

The first thing you'll notice is that with 12 shots on a roll, you have to exercise constraint and make every shot count. You'll start remembering why you took a photo, how you were feeling. Suddenly the shots that you'd discard on a 5D II are some of the most charming of the lot. You learn to appreciate that turning your most interesting creative decisions to a mass-produced autofocus IC is kind of a drag. Happy accidents abound.

I'm warning you... it's a rabbit hole, and you might never come back out (but you'll be very happy there).
@temphn

I think you're missing a middle ground & the analogy with Google is pretty weak at best...

As far as school & healthcare go I think a lot of people just want access to "decent" healthcare & education, it doesn't have be cutting edge. No one wants mediocre, true, but there are many levels in between mediocre & elite. Often though many people don't have a choice where their kid goes to school or the resources to really know how good their doctor is.

While people may want the best or people may want to be the best, often people are realistic in what's achievable. Most of our society is kept together by people doing a "decent" job, no reason they shouldn't be rewarded with a "decent" lifestyle.
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That is the same system we have been playing forever, ever since the bronze age when the stone tool makers where put out of business by the metal workers.

Your error, and it is a common one, is to assume that no new chairs are created.

The trouble right now is because we have gone from trying to create new and fundamentally better things to making existing things cheaper (this is a good and necessary thing too, or else we would only have cars for the rich but it assumes that new technologies exist that can be made cheaper).

We have too many bosses and not enough leaders.
I believe Apple's version is called iTunes Match.
Looking at the s3 breakdown of what you get for $5/month, standard s3 ($5/0.014 ~= 36GB) or reduced redundancy ($5/0.094 ~= 53GB) not including rest requests and traffic, backblaze begins looking like quite a deal. $3.96/month for unlimited backup storage for one computer seems hard to beat.
It is indeed. Recurly has really improved over time, you have been doing a great job. It is so much easier to set up subscription payments today (with a solution like Recurly) than it was 2-3 years ago. Keep up the good work!
Because of satellite television, I would say classical - everyone will understand you, and although you will sound formal in your speech, you will also be able to read and write.

However, you will have difficulty understanding the dialect of the person you are speaking to. And if you have a dialect that you should understand, I would say it should be Gulf Arabic (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, UAE and of course my own Bahrain).

Economic (thriving free markets, not just oil-funded governments) and military activity in the Arab world is concentrated in the gulf, so unless you are trying to be a tourist (Egypt), the real value is in Gulf Arabic. Note that most Arabic teachers are Egyptian or from the Levant, and will try and persuade you otherwise ;)
Ten years ago I wrote a lexer myself for my own language, Q, because I didn't know about regular expressions.

It was actually quite powerful. But I literally just implemented a state machine. To be honest, I think there were a couple things it did that a regular expression wouldn't be able to do.

However, for the most part, the "efficiency" argument is off base. You can COMPILE regular expressions into tight code.
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Yeah, because big Fortune 500 companies never kill off their expensively acquired products lines. Motorola, anyone?
I think the best introduction to object oriented design is shown in the first chapter of Martin Fowler's book "Refactoring". He gives the example of a DVD rental shop that has to calculate the rental fee based on the type of DVD:
- A New Release is $3 per day
- A Children's DVD is $1.50 for three days, then $1.50 per day after that
- A Standard DVD is $2 for two days, then $1.50 per day after that

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I don't think anyone can forget pointers though, except in Winnie the Pooh way.

Also, anyone learning data structures should know pointers or at least references as a prerequisite. You can't reason about efficiency in data structures knowing only the high level comfort of Python.
Agreed. When will people realize that denying them sleepovers will have a far greater impact on them socially than used clothing?

(Actually used clothing is awesome, I wouldn't have half as many nice shirts if I hadn't bought them used. Oh and you can get suits, ties, utensils, etc as well).
> However, for the most part, the "efficiency" argument is off base. You can COMPILE regular expressions into tight code.

Rob Pike has written multiple regular expression engines and at least 4 programming languages. I think he understands the efficiency part pretty well.
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Can someone write an explanation for why this is important? Who is this person?
Speaking of which, does Arq 2 have support for AWS Import/Export?
At the risk of being terse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_lucky_stiff
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I've been around programming pretty much all of my life as an spectator (my brother can code and well I'm a product guy so I'm around coders every day). I never quite got the grasp of it and programming seem like this huge abstract thing. Never got myself to take action in learning because frankly I just dismissed it as being to complicated but deep down I always wanted to be able to code.

I completed code academy in one hour. WOW. Now I'm hooked.

I'm actually so hooked that I looked more resources on learning JavaScript. I'm reading this: http://eloquentjavascript.net/index.html (found it via a Google Search in StackOverflow)

I can't wait for more lessons. Thanks so much for this!

Note: there were a couple of lessons were I did need to ask my devs for help because there were some concepts that were missing. Once explained to me, I was able to complete the lessons.
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Great points. I thought that if I stayed in the library and studied as much as humanly possible that I would be very successful. Then I saw all the C students that went to lots of parties have way more job opportunities than me. And they make much more money than me. It took me a couple years to get over the bitterness and sense of being stabbed in the back.
College loans is one of the crummiest industries in the US.

By manipulating legislature to gain recourse status (even after a personal bankruptcy), accepting government money to finance such futile aspirations, and pushing up the overall price of higher ed, they're in a unique position to be disliked by both liberals and conservatives.

With graduate degrees especially the loan applicant should be required to cover a good portion of their education from their current job. Which will make them at least test the waters (i.e. internship offices and recruiting departments) to see what market applicability their current/future degree has, instead of finding the truth a few years later with a six-digit debt.
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Well, it took about 8-12 years of practice for me to be able to do it correctly, and at least twice that to achieve my current proficiency. So when I have my choice of designed languages, I'd like one that tries to learn from the failings of the organic ones.
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