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This guy, it seems, still don't realize that there is no silver VM^Wbullet and never will be, and choosing appropriate tools for each particular task is still absolutely necessary. ^_^

And that clarity, readability and common idioms of a language matters more than its runtime, and that 100k of Java or Javascript code is not the same pile of crap as 100k of Python or Ruby code, assuming that it is not specially obfuscated. ^_^

Fast prototyping that some stacks (VM+frameworks) provide has no correlation with real production environments where you must consider a system in terms of data-flows, content types, separate storage for different types and flows of data, different levels of caching, and so on.

And, of course, in most cases, serving a content from a file on modern FS with help of a little C code is much faster end more efficient than serving the same content with some cool VM involved. ^_^
Man she's been shopping that column around for a while.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-bloom/how-to-talk-to-litt...
It seems I thought wrong. Drama.
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This is pretty good advice in an entrepreneurial forum where people are most interested in quickly prototyping an idea for the web, showing it to people and finding where to take it and how to change the idea, getting people to look at it who might throw some cash at it, and so on. You're not concerned about high performance or even really quality engineering yet, all the "soft" stuff is way more important.

I'd question its wisdom for engineering-heavy work.

Edit: Also, it makes a bit more sense to posit this:

If you could choose n where your language is n orders of magnitude slower and you are n times as productive with this language were both true which value of n would you choose?
Why can't the US manufacture iPads? Its not the labor cost.
because if you google "godaddy promo", you're likely to buy the .com/.net/.in/.whatever for $1-5 at any given time.
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Ha, and what'll be next..? Well, I guess I'm also quite thankful in a way that noobs like that don't actually get good idea's in the first place, although it can be quite annoying.
What is the target user group of this project?

I like the idea, but I know too few people who will really start using it.
Hardly, he maintains probably one of the biggest git based source controlled projects in the world. If he has these issues then it's likely that using the advice to improve upon the current system will also benefit others running sizeable projects and attract more large customers.
Are you passionate?
Reading Eric Schmidt’s quote the other day:

“Life is short, work with people you like”

Got me thinking about passion and how lucky I am to be working with and having worked with what I love and have a passion for, for the past 20 (gulp!) years. Including my current job working on secret project I’m not allowed to talk about yet. I’ve been lucky enough to work with technology that I love with people that I love working with and for.

Being lucky enough to work on what you’re passionate about (and getting paid to do it!) is something I wish everyone gets the opportunity to do in their lifetime.
So how many of you out there are passionate about what you do? What would you work on if given the choice?
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Ditto in my culture. Talking about how handsome you are (you share my genes, how can you not be handsome?) and how surprising it is that you haven't found a wife yet continues long into your 20s.

To be honest, I think this whole debate is a generalization based on a post-victorian western culture where all the frivolities concerning male appearance have died. Previously, men--at least the aristocratic sort--used to wear make up, tights, wigs and high heels all at once but now only women do.
You're making the arguably extraordinary claim that _someone_ is spinning up Facebook-sized workloads on AWS, multiple times a day. Until you can back that up with a source, you're going to get downvoted.
I will just add one thing.

It's true that most people don't use (or even know) Windows Phone 7, but I have talked with several that do and they are really happy with that system. Judging only subjectively - and only from reactions from others - Microsoft maybe "got it" with mobiles this time.
Shouldn't the hot exterior eventually be the same as short battery life?
Regarding the challenge to find an action in Windows that can be done with the mouse but not with the keyboard: Ever since XP was released it's bothered me that there was no keyboard shortcut for "New Folder". I solved that using AutoHotKeys, but Microsoft finally added ctrl+shift+N in Windows 7.
It also depends on how fast the app needs to be, and how far your computer is (e.g. the answer might have been different 20 years ago for the same task) - it would be nice to express the question differently, to make it invariant of these aspects.

For "interesting" tasks (in a research sense), speed is limited by combinatorial explosion. Finding an algorithm/approximation/heuristic that avoids or reduces that is the only real solution - because faster languages, like faster computers, can only give you linear speed up.
Hi Ben, just out of curiosity, are you considering remote working? It's unusual to see a latin american company announcing jobs here in HN.

Saludos desde Corrientes!
I personally emailed Linus and posted his response. My name is Nick Mudge in case anyone wants to publicly call me a liar.
This is worth thinking over.

I think a lot of boys do aspire the adrenaline rush professions. But if they don't end up being one, do they now resign from their whole lives and just go saying the social persuasions to be such, destroyed their whole lives?

There is always going to be a social persuasion for nearly everything. They way we eat, dress, talk nearly anything people can see, people can pass a comment on. And that becomes a mass opinion and taken to be the established truth later.

Somehow I find it difficult to understand why women consider themselves so special in this regard. Why do we end up comparing representation of women and men in every industry is beyond my understanding.

In the name of diversity and women's empowerment, why should we expect a guy to work late in the night, come on weekends, push hard deadlines and a girl is given all options to leave early? why is inefficiency assumed to be OK and acceptable just to accommodate them? If a girl feels need to emphasize her equality, can't it be done by performing? Why do rules have to be bent, made lot more easier?

Its like a foot ball game, where you remove away the defenders so that they can score a easily. This sort of defeats the very whole purpose of empowerment.

Empowerment is to give strength to something so that it can compete with challenges as they are, not remove away the challenges so that can be easily met.
That's probably a bit too much overhead for something like this. Imagine the number of businesses that close each year, then imagine Google sending a postcard to each.

I've been through the postcard validation, and it's pretty painless. I'd prefer some notification options that includes the ability to receive an email before my location is marked as closed. A thresholding algorithm could be used to detect abuse. If a location is repeatedly marked as closed, but the owner of the listing verifies that they're still open every time, a listing could be flagged for further inspection. Subsequent requests to close could be prompted for more information, which Google staff could then use to take action.

All of this requires more attention from Google, and I'd imagine that the Maps business already runs on pretty thin margins. Google's approach to most of these problems is to use an "85% solution" (I mean that 80% figuratively, not literally). That is, they choose a solution that works for "most" situations, but falls apart when abuse is present, but they don't really care, because those edge cases don't affect their bottom line.
I'm uncomfortable when people want to volunteer their ideas to me for exactly that reason. There's also usually an implicit question: how much will it cost you to build this for me?

Rather than hearing someone's idea for an app I'd much prefer to hear about an existing, unsolved problem that they have. You know, an actual problem worth solving. Those tend to be the more fruitful variety of ideas, IMHO.
Yes. The number one, guaranteed way to get a developer's attention is to go and sell your idea. Literally. Sell the would-be product to someone and get a contract. Sure, that contract will be full of outs for the buyer, but it's still a contract.

Getting to this point is a lot of work. It means you will have thought things through. It means you will have talked to your customers. It means you probably have mocked something up. You have probably invested a small amount of cash.

But mostly it means someone will pay for it which elevates your idea from "nope - waste of time unless you give me $20k" to "ok, we may have something here".

If you want to pay market rates (cash), I'd say show up with a mockup. If you want to convince a developer to join you for equity, show up with a sale.
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Why would you like to do it? Against what kind of attacks this encryption should protect?
"To say it sucks is a pretty tall order."

I agree, but look through past posts on hn and see if this isn't a oft-mentined opinion.
Are all generalizations always wrong?
He should conclude with even more positive statements about developing and discussing good ideas in the context of use, not technology. I miss good discussions about ideas and more abstract concepts that go beyond technical terms and programming languages. Instead everybody is disrupting with his latest YA* that we had a thousand times.

*) KV stores, node.js hating or petting, the next big X, iPhools, Fezbook, little boyz anonymous - we are the rulerz of the world - hacking, "old tool" in a "new language" thing

(OK, I am enerved ...)
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"More information in your face is not universally better in my humble opinion."

If you're not currently interested in the information, don't look at it, and then when you might be interested in it, you can look at it. If you have big screens this is not an issue.

"You have to alt-tab, locate the window, and context-switch your brain over to using a different program."

Sure, but it's on about the same par as using `cd`. And if you're using a good IDE, you have to do much less window moving and have fast shortcuts for moving to exactly the right window instead of Alt-Tabbing.
Sure, and it's an equally massive leap to say "OMG! Little girls want to be reality TV stars instead of <insert "good" profession here>!" and assume that this is some sort of problem driven by sexism.

The folks who deal in this controversy have a vested interest to keep it controversial. Don't hold your breath for rational explanation.
I'd class this as a talent acquisition, the IP was obviously secondary.
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Might be OT, but does anyone know of a similar service for MOBILE browsers?

Obviously Android and iOS are webkit based... but what about the horror that is BlackBerry rendering? <shudder>
I think there are plenty of people with less than zero ability to execute, i.e. a net negative contribution.
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I can't parse this.
My view on things...

GUIs suck for automation. That's the main problem. Us programmers like to do something once and go home.

Text and command line is automation ready.

Going back to the UNIX philosophy: build small tools that work together via standard interfaces (pipes etc). Then strap a UI to it later. Best of both worlds.
I mentioned some of my favorite GUIs in the post. These are only GUIs that are relevant to my niche, there's a whole world of GUIs out there that I haven't heard about.
For a history of logical vs human decision making, see Spock v. Kirk
Sorry about that - changing 'just like' to 'unlike'.

Do you only listen to ideas from people that can execute? What would you do if you got an awesome idea from someone who couldn't?
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Ah, thanks, and now I've remembered where I saw these: tenderlove's "Worst Ideas Ever" talk at rubyconf, where he and ryan davis basically try and run all this shit at the same time, so they're rescuing segfaults then fixing them using inline assembly, cross compiling rails 2.3's AST into XML and then executing it, cross compiling rails into PHP, and all sorts of awful shit. Hilarious.

http://confreaks.net/videos/198-rubyconf2009-worst-ideas-eve...
Sorry I just reread your first post. You seem to be saying that if you tell an anorexic person they are pretty I will be enforcing their anorexia, and if you tell them they are ugly I will also be enforcing their anorexia. You don't mention it, but I suppose if I don't say anything, I silently encourage their behavior, too (being codependent or whatever).

So no matter what I do, I am an insensitive prick. See why I don't like your logic?

As I said in my other posts, I think there might be deeper issues behind anorexia than what you make them out to be. I really don't think it is about looks, that is just a vehicle.

Also, the girl from the article was not anorexic or at least the blogger doesn't mention it.
I could make a one-keystroke shortcut on the GUI too using AutoHotKey, but I wouldn't because of the usual problems and restrictions (Having to do it, having to maintain these for all your computers, having clashes with other programs...)
Apparently ARM does list Intel as a license holder of the ARM11 and ARM7 (i.e. classic) designs. It is not listed, though, as a licensor of new Cortex designs. [1]

Note that an ARM license has both an up front fee and a per unit royalty. Without Xscale, Intel's royalty fees would be zero meaning as you say it is free to maintain going forward. I can only guess why the license didn't go with Xscale, but I see Marvell is only listed as an ARM9 license holder so maybe it just didn't want the ARM7 and ARM11 licenses.

Perhaps, too, there are other complications that come with transferring an ARM license in the contract language or patent arrangements.

[1] http://www.arm.com/products/processors/licensees.php
Why you want to be a game programmer?
Problem: I can never switch browsers without having to create new logins for all of my sites.
There is no value in ideas. It is always about hardworking with intelligent sense.
Ideas are like seeds. You can grow a Giant Sequoia out of it. But if you don't know how you can not even grow a bean bud.
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And as a bonus, you get to be on the hook for maintaining that site until the owner gets bored with it, making whatever changes they want (for free).
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You can write these type of algorithms easily with a graph-programming language like Gremlin (https://github.com/tinkerpop/gremlin/wiki):

g = new Neo4jGraph('/tmp/neo4j')

// calculate basic collaborative filtering for vertex 1
m = [:]
g.v(1).out('likes').in('likes').out('likes').groupCount(m)
m.sort{a,b -> a.value <=> b.value}

// calculate the primary eigenvector (eigenvector centrality) of a graph
m = [:]; c = 0;
g.V.out.groupCount(m).loop(2){c++ < 1000}
m.sort{a,b -> a.value <=> b.value}

When a user signs in with Facebook or Twitter, you can load their friends and followers into a graph database such as Neo4j and then use Gremlin to run these type of social-graph algorithms.

Graph DBs are fast in general because there is no external index lookup during traversals (the index containing adjacent nodes are located within the node). Pair that with local-rank (http://markorodriguez.com/2011/03/30/global-vs-local-graph-r...), and you can do real-time ranking and analysis.
Pasting from the blog comment:

Alt-F -> W -> F.

I shortened it to Ctrl-Start-F on my own machine using AutoHotKey
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No mention of unix shells, no mention of powershell, no mention of having even used vim or emacs. Screenshot of command.exe.

Sorry to "cool-RR" and those who upvoted this, but this is a ridiculously inadequate article for HN, it's total flamebait and brings exactly zero to the table. This is like coming to a website about "travelling while working" and submitting an article by a guy who says travelling and working in China is a bad idea from the net total experience of having eaten in China-town in the West and wandering around some tourist traps in some Chinese mega-city for a couple of days.

Complete trash, flagged.
> To say we should give up and let our biology dictate who we are despite having plenty of examples to the contrary is rather defeatist.

Sorry for misunderstanding. I wasn't saying that, just highlighting that biological makeup, specifically the endocrine system, can affect behavior quite bit. It should not be used as an excuse but it should be acknowledged as well. Small tendences when averaged over a lifetime can create quite different outcomes in the end. Think of a stream that slowly etches a rock and we end up with the Grand Canyon in the end.

So just to repeat again, I am not for sending all girls to home-ec classes and prep only boys for engineering and science, just showing that biological differences are there and they can affect behavior, perception & learning in significant way. Ignoring those factors, might end up being detrimental in the long run.
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Rails issue #2639: Served asset log messages are pretty annoying
The elephant was attacking a town, right? It was going to be killed in defense anyway. The town managed to sell "kill rights" to a rich idiot, good for them.
There is this article:

http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/hadoop/posts/2008/09/scalin...

Which is from 2008 and which references a cluster twice the size of the facebook one, and mentions several production clusters the same size as the facebook one.

They are (obviously, this being Yahoo!) not on Amazon though.
Real time graphs and other real time data aside, the example on copying a few files from one place to another is not a very good one to demo the concept of visibility here.

When I need to copy a few files from somewhere to another place, I usually know which files I want to move and where to put them. His opinion is that GUI is superior in this case because you can _see_ the files (their icons) and then select them. There are a few flaws in this thinking.

If you know what you're copying, locating and selecting them will take you longer than to type and tab complete.

If you don't know what files you're looking for, then scanning through the list visually will take an incredibly long time. If you just have a few files, this is not a problem in the first place. In general, if I don't know exactly what I'm looking for, trying to find the stuff I need by browsing is too slow. I either know what I'm looking for or I have to find it using an automatic tool like find or grep.

The second problem in the copy file example is less fundamental: it's the simple fact that selecting multiple files in a GUI file manager is difficult. You have to ctrl-click or do something similar (that's definately not keyboard friendly).

It's nice that the author has spent time pondering where GUI's are good, but unfortunately there are still lots of use cases where GUI's are not good enough.

What's positive about the article is that he acknowledges the fact that most GUIs suck - not because GUIs are inherently bad but because some are just so badly designed.
Sometimes trying to make things too simple just adds complexity. A good password manager can do this without the same risk of identity theft and loss of anonymity. I think many repressive governments would love to have one central tracking option. Even if you could somehow insure that it would not be aboust you would want the ability of a local record incase of censorship or domain blocking by competing businesses.
I am unconvinced that the Internet would not work without a reasonable level of anonymity. A secure log in is not required for every website you visit as the article seems to claim.
The problem I see with this premise is that for any reasonable language/environment and actual, real-life problem, n will hardly ever be n.

Most of the time, your productivity increase p will be equal to a slowdown s multiplied by a factor f.

So the big performance for lots of problems is: How large can f get for you? Sometimes you can't really pay the price (e.g. writing 3D engines in tcl), sometimes the money factor m will make more than up for it (i.e. more programmers, more instances on more servers etc.).

Never mind the actual size of p. Given the mentioned hodgepodge of dynamic languages, I'd expect it to be pretty small unless your environment isn't up to it, i.e. you have to write modules. Then even hyper-mega-insta-lisptalkscript will be much slower than CPAN.

I'd say that even for C/C++ vs. dynlang f will be pretty high, but again, it often doesn't matter that much…
If unix shells or powershell give you visibility on the same level as a GUI, I'd be interested.
"Apache now serves twice as many hostnames as this time last year"
The programs that had those problems also probably jumped directly into the KickStart ROM and expected it to be of version 1.2. When KickStart 1.3 came out quite a few games broke.

I know of only one case where some german demo coders used CPU/chip timing to multiplex sprites to get more than 8 sprites per row.

Most of the timing bugs were of the kind that the CPU got faster(maybe due to code running from RAM not affected by custom chip cycles, or perhaps a 68020 or better was used) and neglected to wait for the blitter to be ready.

"Fast-RAM" was common enough after a few years to this not being a huge problem.

AmigaOS and the whole of Amiga was a thing of beauty IMHO.
The tl;dr version is that this piece is a response to a piece from the Times, which discusses TechCrunch.
Acting condescending towards people who don't understand my field for not understanding my field could be counter productive? Yeah, this is a no-brainier.

The anti-"idea guy" attitude was all ego, no logic. I can't say I'm surprised that it took off as well as it did, it felt good and matched the reality that most ideas suck so it was easy to adopt. I'm not surprised, but a disappointed that more people didn't recognize it for what it was. Oh well, being the only guy hearing the good ideas was fun while it lasted.
Conventional holography proves this is possible. Portions of the image of a hologram can appear at points both closer and farther than the plane of the hologram itself. Furthermore, reflection holograms can be recorded in opaque media, so the parts of the hologram that form farther the hologram plane appear to be "inside" the hologram. See, for example, this photograph of one of the first three-dimensional holograms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hologrammit.jpg . The hologram plane is demarcated by the sharp transition from red to black at the bottom, but the object in the hologram appear to be behind the hologram plane.
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