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That's just it: with a vertex 3 and a maxed out CPU the x220 doesn't perform like a thin and light -- I'm getting the same IO performance as a vertex 3 in a desktop, and although I could get a CPU boost with a desktop processor I'd have to give up on having all my work with me at all times / at conferences.

The EC2 option has always interested me, but short of EBS RAID its IO actually isn't better than a vertex 3 -- they're crazy fast; if you haven't tried them I highly recommend you do :)
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"Technological progress should cause increasing economic inequality" is a bold statement. Presumably, increasing productivity for everyone is one of the signal benefits of technological progress. If we accept that as true, then why can we not say that technological progress is agnostic as far as economic inequality is concerned?

Many of the arguments about economic inequality in this thread seem to be predicated on the notion that we are talking about comparing salaries or car brands. Don't be jealous of your neighbor for having a higher salary or a better car, and why should he have to give up more of his money via taxes just to enhance your lifestyle... seems to be the gist.

But income inequality is rooted in the question not of does your neighbor have more goodies, but how do we divide the spoils of our shared enterprise. If you and your neighbor are partners in the same firm, and you are working your ass off so that he can ride around in a Benz, things are a little different.

It is interesting to observe that when this argument is couched in terms immediately relevant to most of the posters here, the response on HN is quite different. I.e. "I have a great business idea, I just need someone to code it for 1% of the business equity". There are markedly fewer posters defending this notion, or condemning the hacker who wants a bigger share as exhibiting some kind of perverse socialist urge toward income redistribution, than there are posters in this thread defending the same notion expanded to society as a whole.
I like Taleb, but I think you've misinterpreted him. High-frequency measurements of a random variable will reveal more about the probability distribution than will infrequent measurements. As far as I know financial time-series are scale-invariant. While infrequent measurement may take advantage of the law of large numbers in identifying the mean, frequent measurement will allow observation of both the mean and the variance of the distribution.
After seeing your comment, I was reminded once again of the futility of discussing economics and politics on internet forums, and deleted my comment elsewhere on the thread.

Your parent comment claims that "consumers are spending less", then you provide data that refutes that (and I remember you've done that several times on other threads too). Does that further the discussion? No, nobody changes their mind. They just cherry pick other data that confirm their views, and question the neutrality of any data that doesn't.

I think most time people change their views on politics, it's by reading books, having life experience and thinking. Rarely by being convinced by someone on a forum.

Compare to discussions on other topics: in every HN thread about Javascript or systems security or nutrition or music theory, there's bound to be quite a few readers who actually learn something or even change their minds about some preconceived idea they had.

(now I'll stop rambling cause there's an earthquake here)
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Good news! You can have this right now in Perl:

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I find your straight copy-and-pasting of other people's work deplorable and I'm looking forward to your banishment from Hacker News. I know you're now ending your articles with a "source" - but why create your own articles instead of just linking to theirs?

Ref: http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/01/12-amazing-and-essential...
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"Ugly as shit"?

I think Lenovo machines in their matte black rubberized cases look gorgeous.

It's all about what you've been pre-conditioned to like. I will not buy a laptop with a glass-covered glossy screen. That screen would be useless to me. Also I will not own a laptop without a layout like this:
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/03/thinkp...

It's called attention to detail and immaculate ergonomics: you have a fully operational mouse without moving your fingers away from the FJ position. I can't imagine working on a laptop without it. Why bother suffering?

I understand that people like sparkly and shiny things. I understand clever marketing, sleek design and the adrenaline of being part of the crowd. Fine, have fun - it's very much like rooting for a football team.

But seeing Mac users trying to "cross swords" in a feature/function battle is simply ridiculous. Try this on your notebook: write a sentence, go and change the 3rd word in it. Time yourself. Divide that by 5 (to get my time) multiply the difference by 1923 (that's how much we do this while coding), add a few minutes on top to compensate for missed "Esc" and "Enter" hits and then throw your arms up, scream in pain and anger, and be enlightened. Free of charge, I do this for charity.
Do you agree with how terrible it is to straight out copy and paste other peoples' work?

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/30-php-best-practices-...
Lua does this already. And that's the part about Lua that I don't like. But that's mostly my personal preference speaking.
It's clear that adoption by other browsers is a prerequisite for really being able to use this, unless Chrome manages to corner the browser market.

It's clear that other browsers won't adopt something like this without an open standard.

So this is not "don't be evil" but simple pragmatics.

"Don't be evil" would involve doing something other than presenting a fait accompli to a standards body and asking for a rubberstamp.
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Let me explain, Rather than trying to make a language as aesthetically pleasing to the programmer as possible, the Go team tried to get by its limitations with design kludges and workarounds that are visually less appealing and intuitive then the many well-designed solutions that preceded it, e.g:

- Error codes are a poor substitutions for Exceptions

- Have to code around lack of generics, e.g. by abusing their typed map if possible

- Defer less desirable and intuitive than C# using

- array bracket notation prefixing the variable

- No proper classes?

I mean, take their example on a File type (http://golang.org/doc/go_tutorial.html):

type File struct {
fd int
name string
}

func (file File) Read(b []byte) (ret int, err os.Error) {}

func (file File) Write(b []byte) (ret int, err os.Error) {}

file := &File{fd, "file.txt"}

The same signatures in CoffeeScript can be achieved by:

class File

constructor: (@name) ->

read: (cb) ->

write: (contents) ->

file = new File "file.txt"

Which I'm sure a majority of people would find a lot more readable.

Just for kicks I decided to rewrite Go's Cat example to StdOut in CoffeeScript for a side-by-side comparison.
The examples are fairly close but not exact, i.e. cat.Go implements via streaming while CoffeeScript's is non-blocking.

https://gist.github.com/1207994

The CoffeeScript version ways in at 12 LOC, while Go's example is over 110 LOC and a lot more unfriendlier on the eye.
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I don't think it is a recent change. The reason I am familiar with it is my current employer tried to pull this one--I showed them the law and they backed down thankfully.

Also, don't give up on old wages. An employee at a former employer filed a class action lawsuit (somehow I got attached), his hardwork resulted in an $8k check that found its way to my doorstep. ;)
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It's called "ISO 8601". Personally, I use the period to demarcate all differences when writing somewhere for myself: 2011.09.10.02.13.21
Yep. Depending on the airline you might do direct SFO->Hong Kong or there'd be a stop in Tokyo (Narita) or some other inconvenient location. It was one or two flights a day, not every couple of hours.

Heck, I'll bet it's not a lot better now. let's take a look! Suppose I want to fly on United to Hong Kong next Friday. Kayak tells me that if I miss the one that leaves at 1pm (direct flight - total time 14 hours 5 minutes), the next one available leaves at 10:51pm and has an 8-hour layover in Chicago. Total time-in-transit on that option: 27 hours 19 minutes. ("This flight leaves on Friday and arrives on Sunday.") Oof.

Sure, there are other airlines, but booking at the last minute, most of the best route options are likely to be sold out.

(I spent about half of 1999 in short trips to Hong Kong helping "PocketMail" devices ship)
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In python nested functions must be declared before calling them. Also stuff like this seems to crop up on me when I ry using closures: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2516652/scoping-problem-i...
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There's something I actually quite like about strange, dated sci-fi. I'll admit I really have only one strong example of it, and that is Gibson's Sprawl trilogy, but there's something fantastic about a world where information technology is scary and foreign, a world of digital phone booths and fax-newspapers, in which the internet is pervasive and deep, yet in other ways clunky and limited. It's a future arrived at by an alternate-present.
That's a terribly biased comparison. The go example defined stdin/stdout/stderr from scratch and much else besides, while the coffeescript version basically called a library function.

It's very hard to compare statically-typed system languages with dynamically-typed HLLs. And it's utterly misleading to judge one by the standards of the other.
Could not agree more. Even folks who claim to be for open standards (including Google) defend Flash as if it was an open standard.

But it's not--it's proprietary to Adobe and was designed for the desktop and not mobile. And while performance on Windows was always pretty good, it was horrible on Mac OS X. Flash is the single biggest cause of browser crashes on the Mac.

Ironically, Apple choosing to support HTML5 video and encouraging their developers to do them same got them lots of criticism.

And even if your browser didn't crash, your machine would slow to a crawl because almost all of your CPU cycles got hijacked by Flash, even on new hardware. Apps like ClickToFlash (http://clicktoflash.com/) were required to make surfing the web tolerable on the Mac.

Eventually Apple stopped including Flash preinstalled on Macs; many Mac users removed Flash so their machines would run cooler and faster and with more stability. And existing users realized (thanks for articles like Going Flash-Free on Mac OS X, and How to Cheat When You Need It (http://daringfireball.net/2010/11/flash_free_and_cheating_wi... they could uninstall Flash and the world wouldn't end.

Even when pundits were producing FUD constantly about the lack of Flash on iOS, even predicting that Apple would eventually relent, I knew it would never happen.

Apple would never allow something they didn't control to become the video or animation standard on their platform. And certainly not something that would have a detrimental impact on battery life and wasn't designed with touch in mind.

Apple didn't just win today; they won when they said publicly what many of us already knew: Flash is legacy technology that's not necessary going forward. Which they've proven repeatedly.
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That is as stupid, arrogant, and selfish a paragraph as I've ever wasted my time to read. Not an ounce of good or truth to be found. Comes from the problem, in fact as he offers his help he is actually the exact cause of the problem.
I hope it's obvious that it's a joke, but was the question serious is my concern.
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Thanks for the reply. It cleared up my misunderstanding -- I think HN readers don't do a good job thinking when it comes to Apple stories.

(for those curious here is the breakdown of why pbreit is wrong:

1. The guy I was replying to is by definition an HNer, and was talking about buying an air over a sony SB due to reinstall concerns. My "how odd" was in reply / directly to him.

2. Macs aren't ready to use out of the box. No computer is. You need to, at the very least, install all the apps you use and copy over your data. This takes considerable time. Did it come with Chrome? Did it come with Office? Did it come with (your editor of choice)? Did it come with Little Snitch? 1password? The caps-lock key switched to a control key? Inconsolata installed? No. And that's not a complete list by a long shot. Adding an hour long reinstall to this list isn't a big deal.

3. The x220 and Macbook air do have the same form factor from a functional perspective. They both are quite easy to keep with you at all times, hence both inhabiting the thin and light category used by most review sites. Yes the air is thinner, but it gives up being able to accept good hard drives to do so... making the x220 the smallest you can go and still get good performance.

4. I wasn't exaggerating the value of my work. I don't even think my numbers were above average for engineer pay...)
On Hacker News -- a once great but now decrepit wasteland gathering point -- virtually every post by John Gruber, no matter how unnuanced, uninsightful, and predictable, makes it to the front page. It only needs to speak to that small minority who will predictably and in a concerted fashion vote it up. Any competitor (HN is long past gone. We live in a upside-down world where specialized subreddits on Reddit are insightful and interesting, while HN is populated with superficial talking points, movie references, and pun threads) would be a better site for individuals if they allowed a logged in user to flag stories for noninclusion in any personal vote counts. That if they see yet another empty Gruber post on the front page they could flag it and anyone who voted it up would be removed from any future counts and rankings as presented to them, either on comments or posts

http://blog.yafla.com/A_Curse_of_One_Thousand_Intellectual_V...
Sure it sucks to be poor, believe me I know

No, you really don't know. Because being poor for you was temporary. I'm technically "poor" right now, but having a wonderful time because to make that amount of money I only have to work a few hours per week. Whereas some families at my daughters' school have both parents working two jobs to make less than I do. I've visited their home and no dishwasher, no clothes washers. They aren't working on a fucking startup.

let's not kid ourselves into thinking that the developed world is devolving into some dickensian nightmare when nothing of the sort is happening

My brother works in poor communities in the UK. It is happening. If trotting out graphs showing a single metric is all you need to do to convince yourself and voters like you otherwise, then I predict its only going to get worse.
So instead of (roughly) 24 time zones there would be 100? Maybe you divide by four and have 25 to match current boundaries.
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You presume syntax is like fashionable clothes all decorating the same basic thing underneath; that's not at all true. Syntax is a reflection of the underlying differences in semantics of these languages, they're not just decoration.

You can write procedural C style in any language, but you're not really using the language if you aren't using its idioms which will inevitably reveal the reasoning of its syntactical choices. Lisp is a perfect example, as is Smalltalk.
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You forget the fouth, and the solution to the problem. The reason people are having trouble creating wealth is because the have no place to do it. This country was built by people being allowed to do what they wished, on their land, and they could do anything. Now not enough is getting done because nobody can pay for the land. Poverty in America is being created today the same way it always has been, charging to much for using space.
You do realize that Flash still runs faster and uses less CPU than HTML5's canvas, even in OS X?

http://www.themaninblue.com/writing/perspective/2010/03/22/
The MacBook Air has that block of aluminum. Who else has that?

Yes, its stiffer and lighter, but it also makes it a more beautiful machine. And that's definitely worth something to me.

As is the fact that I can develop on unix.

And it comes with Apple Care.

And I'm able to back up over the air using Time Capsule.

All of these things make life easier and more flexible.

This "new" Apple advantage is just one of the many advantages Apple has been creating.
>Henry Ford allegedly paid well and understood that he needed to create a market for what he made,

Ford paid well because that was the only way he could attract workers to do the relatively boring assembly line work.

The idea of paying people to buy your products is simply not a viable business plan. Ford created the market by making the cars cheap so ordinary folks could afford them.
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I've read upwards of 10 reviews of the x220 today and every single one of them apologized for the general appearance of the thing.

For the record I don't think the Lenovo is 'ugly as shit'. I used that phrase to drive home the disparity between the Macbook Air and any real world shipping product that people hold up as a price comparable alternative to the MBA.

The bottom line is they always take the bullshit route of comparing a much huskier machine. Why? Because the only machines that really compare in form factor can't compete on price (exactly the point of the linked articles!).
I'm not sure what you mean by Haxe debugging. That happens with whatever run time debugger you have for js, php, etc. As far as development goes, there's flashdevelop, an eclipse plugin, a few textmate bundles, a vim package, etc.
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If you don't mind me asking, what part of debugging/development in haxe turned you off?
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I am truly, truly horrified that this a language option in perl, although I'm not surprised. (Well, I did google it to see if you were joking, but you weren't, apparently).

The older I get the more Larry Wall strikes me as like a really well intentioned hippy type; when in God's green earth has it been a good idea to allow a five character statement change the truth values of nearly every for loop in a body of code?

Perl always claimed it gave you enough rope to hang yourself, but this goes far, far beyond that. This is like building the scaffolding and marking it like "Young developers, play here! Ropes are fun!"
When money is considered free speech, gross inequity is the same as disenfranchisement of all but the richest.

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I've worked as a webmaster for 10 years. I used notepad for years but finaly switched to Dreamweaver. The code isn't all ways clean but it gets the job done. If I have trouble I can edit the code as needed.

Since you're new, I think it's best for you to stick with a text editor for a while so you can get a strong hold on the code. It will come in handy later. But once you have a true hold, switch to something like Dreamweaver.
If you can invest capital to increase productivity, demand for labor goes down, and wages will be kept down.

The only way to increase wages is then to proportionately increase demand for goods and services so that, despite the productivity gains, there is an increasing demand for labor.

We are also seeing automation (capital) and (cheap) overseas labor substituted for domestic labor beginning in the 80s. Consumer demand did not keep pace, so wages stagnated.
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I’m not familiar with haXe all that well, just enough to include it in the list. However, in the end haXe is too, statically translated into Javascript. GWT has an excellent debugger as well, but there’s only so much you can do on that level of indirection.
Take it to MetaTalk.

(oh how I wish HN had a Meta section)
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> I am truly, truly horrified that this a language option in perl, although I'm not surprised.

How about this in C(and thousand others):
#define if while

I am pretty sure I can find something to horrify you in almost any language.
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