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...debrief the people who pass on you.

Right, I'd be so thrilled to provide feedback because companies have the courtesy to do the same to the candidates they pass on. Back when I was job hunting for 6+ months I would consider myself lucky if I got an almost automated "We're sorry to inform you that..." email, most don't bother even with that.

Fuck them and the horse they rode in on, leave them in the dark.
For a while it seemed like Google had a strategy with Go, NaCl and Pepper. But they have other "evolutionary vectors" and the reasoning is not obvious. Is it technical or political?
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The X220 isn't remotely as thin as the Macbook Air:

http://www.engadget.com/photos/lenovo-thinkpad-x220-review/#...

versus

http://www.engadget.com/photos/macbook-air-review/#4317649
woah.

(not to post something useless, but I'm literally speechless going back and forth between "that's so awesome" and "that's so dumb" in my head for so many different reasons)

(and at how short and quick Guido's response was, as if it was such an easy decision to make.)
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I'm not convinced that inequality is freedom, or that equality prevents freedom. Can you explain what you mean by freedom?

Imagine that a group of people, a nomadic tribe perhaps, wanted the freedom to live in a non-hierarchical society. If someone imposed inequality--that the best hunter/gatherer in the group should receive a "fair" share of resources--that would be restricting the freedom of the people, would it not?
Ready to ship almost never means "in stores". Additionally, Apple trusts no one, even when NDAs are in place, so at the very least the product has to be ready to go to third-party partners by the time it's announced. Often, the partners may need some time before it's "ready to ship", which can account for part of the delay.

That said, last minute bugs do happen and cause delays. Apple will ship late before it ships a known defective product (yes, it has shipped defective products, but not any that were known defective), but it doesn't like to do either.
Yes, and in that respect the startup world is definitely winning...
Happy 9/10/11
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Interesting that Theism is mentioned in it's antonym, but not given a graphic (although I'd be at a loss to come up with one).
Unfortunately it did degrade to bashing John. Fuckin' shame really.
I'm actually a pretty big fan of the Netflix model - take as much as you need so long as you can get the job done. We just haven't worked out the logistics of that kind of thing yet.

Let's be honest, though. Technology work is highly team-based... it's not the company so much as your team that will be aggravated by excessive vacation time. I suspect that if we offered that type of model people would actually take LESS vacation - I don't have data to support this hypothesis, but I already know that most people don't actually use up their full allotment in a given year (in general, not just at our company).
Your definition of a start-up is outdated by about a decade.
MacBook Pros have the option to upgrade to a hi-res screen (+$100) or a hi-res antiglare screen (+150).

But at least Apple makes it clear what you're getting:

> The 15-inch MacBook Pro comes with a 1440-by-900-pixel LED-backlit glossy display. You can also choose a high-resolution 1680-by-1050 glossy or antiglare display that gives you 36 percent more pixels.
They mean that you can use Chromium as your primary target — your development stack — and their cross-compiler will take care of supporting legacy/incompatible targets. This is just like GWT does now and it seems the technology (apart from VM, grammar and debugger) will build on the existing codebase of GWT and the Closure compiler.

> What happened to JSPrime?

> The JSPrime effort was begun to unify and be a (single!)
successor to GWT and Closure/JSCompiler, suitable for
large-scale development inside and outside Google,
including being amenable to IDE-like tools and static
compiler optimizations. The JSPrime team is happily
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Dash will explicitly include the same goals.
Are you trying to invoke Godwin's Law, or something?
After a revolution, I wish some of the world's artificial boundaries would go away. There is a huge overhead (money, and power brokers) in maintaining these boundaries. I hope the next revolution de-brokers everything with enforced gaps.
Puppet also supports a 'dry run' mode to give you an idea of what changes would have been applied during a run - something Chef is lacking and definitely makes installing Chef on an already functioning machine a very scary proposition.

The built in reporting in Chef isn't very useful and the web ui is pretty light, but there's at least hooks and examples on how to extend it to meet your requirements.

Most of the Chef development so far appears to have been focused on core features and most recently a simplified installer - hopefully reporting will become a focus as the product matures.
Thanks!

The bit about Hard disk was helpful. I have the OS working.
Yes he would. Apple doesn't own any jets. Steve owns a jet, and Apple reimburses him when he's using it for Apple-related travel.
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I suspect they get paid about 1/3 of what they are billed at, just like programmers working for a consulting shop. Even if self employed, the overcharge helps make up for unbillable work and other overhead. Often, at least.
Fact: HN would cease to exist if everything a minority didn't want to see was blacklisted.
The random comma in the yui example can be eliminated fairly easily. It being there is due to Coffeescript not being able to support the following call style when I initially wrote the shim.

YUI.module = function(o, f) {
var name = o.name,
ver = o.version;
delete o.name;
delete o.version;
if(!name || !version) throw "Both `name` and `version` are required.";
return YUI.add(name, f, ver, o);
}

YUI.module
name: 'myCoolModule'
version: 1.0
requires: ['app','model']
(Y) -> ...

Ultimately CoffeeScript is syntax sugar for Javascript that you pay for with wrong line numbers when debugging. I think it's worth it, but I have friends who disagree. My coffeescript source is about 30% fewer lines of code than the equivalent javascript. Roughly half of that is entirely closing braces/parens but the other half is actual code reduction/simplification, mostly from loop comprehensions.

I also use it for API design. My habit when doing the design is to write out code for how I'd like to use it. I always use coffeescript for this regardless of whether I'm implementing it in JS or CS because a bad api visually looks bad to me when I write it out and I bang at it until it looks right. I've been mocked for this process by a couple people who have asked for my input on their projects but I've never had someone not take my resulting recommendations.
Robert Reich had a piece on NPR's Marketplace the other night [1] that seemed to contribute to this idea: the notion that while some were accepting 9% (rather than 6%) as the "new normal" in terms of unemployment rate, this was a calamitous development. If you imagine a correlation between unemployment and economic inequality, then at one end of the spectrum, high unemployment and economic inequality leads to anarchy; as you slide down the scale, you pass through revolution, civil unrest, and malaise.

Let's assume that the optimum is farther down the spectrum (somewhere around "sustainability" but not so giddy as to be in "bubble" or "artificially-crafted giddy delusion"). Then what are the forces at play to drive us there? From a political standpoint, it's electability; yet if we're too far into the inequality part of the spectrum, the fixes take more than an election cycle, and therefore require strong political leadership or near dictatorship (think FDR and no term limits as a model; think Japan and its many prime ministers over the last decade and stagnation as the counterexample). That's not promising since it may mean only the Senate, with its six-year terms and only 1/3 of the membership up for re-election has a long enough time-frame to do what's needed.

But what about from a business perspective--what incentives and forces are there today in business to try to close that income gap? Henry Ford allegedly paid well and understood that he needed to create a market for what he made, yet the auto industry today can't close that gap alone. If Apple's prominence in the economy is comparable to Ford's, what hope is there that the jobs they create in China will create a positive feedback loop of income equality? Perhaps with a global perspective it will.

Therefore, I come to the conclusion that the Ford Motor of the 21st century will be a company that is able to further its own market by empowering its customers (and the common, untrained person) to become value creators from an economic standpoint. You see Google and Apple and even eBay nibbling around the edges, but who is going to emerge that harnesses and transmutes that latent economic power?

[1] http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2011/09/07/pm...
I suspect you're overlooking Guido's sense of humor. He was making a joke with his acceptance of the idea.
After reading that article on Orange and Teal colors being using in movies, I started noticing the color palette, especially in this one.
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I wish the fonts for descriptions were more readable.
It really seems like an inferiority complex to me. Yes, Lenovo, Dell, etc all have too many choices and it's confusing (for me, at least).

But after just a little research I was able to pick the perfect Thinkpad for me. You want a Mac? Buy a Mac. You want something else? Buy something else.

Stop letting Gruber or the latest Windows pundit bait you into arguments that don't do you any good -- all you do is boost their blog page views.

Just use whatever and get over the pissing matches. There's no one true path, beware anyone who would tell you such.
Standard exceptions to the rule in recent memory include:

- products that depend on 3rd-party developer support. If the iPad 3 has a new form factor and new hardware such that developers will want to rewrite their apps to take best advantage, Apple might show it at the developer conference and tell everybody "you've got 3 months to get your apps ready"

- products that get accidentally leaked or need to be leaked early due to regulatory requirements such as filing for FCC approval.

What Apple doesn't do is float trial balloons just to have something to show. Lot of companies will mock up some design that is approximately similar to the expected final product and show/announce that, then finish figuring out how to build it. Apple's ideal is to make a big splash by showing something unexpected that you can buy in the very very near future so people run out and buy it, garnering additional publicity based on the big lines and big numbers of customers.

Which is great if you can pull it off, though it seems inevitable that one of these days they'll guess wrong. If and when they do blow it, it'll be at least a billion-dollar mistake to have built up so much inventory in advance of finding out whether people like the thing.
oh, it's 10/9/11 here ...
I'm going to be that guy:

"as a compliment to this paper" --> complement

"no higher complement." --> compliment

Thanks for a cool post.
Unequal societies are unhappier.
I don't know.... If it was really bad, it could have been replaced with something better. If it was really good it could be kept. Today we're stuck with something half bad/half good, we're keeping it and it is uncomfortable at times.
Add it to the deficiencies of html and css and web dev becomes a chore.
Someone with high computing requirements shouldn't be using an ultra light notebook; get a desktop or get an amazon ec2 instance for a few pennies.
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So is it Dash or Dart? It was referred to as Dart earlier in the week when someon linked the conf that Lars Bak / Gilad Bracha (spelling) would be revealing all at. I'm confused now.
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Clearly the entirety of my argument. You have delivered internet checkmate tonight sir, bask in the eternal glory.
ah ok, not that familiar with Guido, but that makes much more sense haha

edit: also found this later in the thread to confirm the humor behind everything:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2011-September...
This happened at my previous job. They forced everyone to burn down the vacation time from their previous limit of 280 hours to 120. After that they instituted policies with a maximum of 180.

The issue is that it was impossible to take vacation time. Even on vacation I was working 3 hours every day and during the normal workweek was 60-75 hours without overtime or rewarding the extra time.

Frankly, I think that the company should just have a bucket for PTO and put it in the bank and earn interest on it. The liability should be backed by actual dollars so it's not a serious financial risk.
Yeah, it's pretty crazy, isn't it? Apple would never charge for an upgrade from a shitty screen on a $1000+ laptop.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/40663/2011-09-09_2245.png
From the Executive Summary: "Push for Dash to become an open standard and be adopted by other browsers."

I think the "Don't be evil" factor is well represented on that sentence.
I first heard about FizzBuzz from Hackruiter.com and then I got an email from RapLeaf (http://blog.rapleaf.com/dev/2011/09/06/code-golfing-at-the-o...)

It's a very interesting concept to filter out the bad programmers using something simple like FizzBuzz. What do you guys like to give out as programming or interview questions? How effective are they?
Ask HN: Any chemists work in an Open Lab?
I've found a few places in the US that allow people to come in and use their equipment to conduct experiments, for example Genspace in NY - http://genspace.org/. Is anyone aware of other places with a similar setup?

The reason I ask is that I've created a website that connects scientific professionals (previously posted on HN). We've had a few chemistry jobs posted but often run up against University IP issues when recruiting students/post-grads. An example listing is here: http://zombal.com/zomb/scientific-experiment/uv-vis-spectroscopy-and-photolumensence-quantum-yield
Thank you, John Forsythe, for taking the time to do this. This crowd-sourced bestof list is a nice update to David Pringle's "Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels". I love all such lists that have some passion in them, since more often than not I'm introduced to a book and an author that are good reads.

Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels, fan site
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No, it's this kind of comment that start to make HN feel like Eternal September.

Discuss and vote on topics on individual merit is HN, the content-free Gruber/Apple hatefest some people systematically try to engage in every time the author/subject comes up is what devalues HN, not Gruber posts.
He's joking right - I almost spit out my diet coke... (oh yeah...I'm sure THAT will accelerate my group's upgrade from 2.66....)
Because you are missing the point. The discussion is on basic marketing which implies to the general populace, not HNers who are comfortable re-installing their OS. And you preface with "How odd..." either unknowingly or just plain condescendingly describing 95% of the computer buying public. Then you fib that Macs are not ready for use out-of-the-box. Then you put forth the classic defense of exaggerating the value of your work.

ps I did not downvote.
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"cyclone of innovation"? Sigh.

But it seems like an attempt to supersede JS with something significantly better before JS becomes further entrenched as the dominant language for nearly everything (slight exaggeration of what lots of people are saying) is worthwhile.

I wonder what Google's internal prediction markets (if they still have those) says about chances of success.
Mainly browser-vendor politics - MS/Apple/Opera/Mozilla. A proper runtime would weaken their chokehold over the Web client. It's almost certainly not a coincidence that the one major browser vendor which does support a VM is the one which is mainly interested in the Web client as a platform for its applications. Of the other four, two have strong interests in holding back the Web as an alternative to OS-native applications, while the remaining two are more or less nothing without their position of power over Web standards.
The first time I saw this style of video (kinetic typography) was Gnarls Barkley. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAV0XrbEwNc This is also another good example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAuQmJzt_q0
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Author should have linked to this article, can't believe he didn't. Probably the best I've read on Apple's supply chain, this post comes in second: http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-supply-chain-2011-7
How do you reconcile this with control of political processes? Vast differences in income between the rich and the poor could lead to a huge gulf in influence over the government and, sure enough, exactly that has happened in the States. And, what do you think of indications that increased income disparity leads to decreased quality of life across the board, for rich and poor alike?

Moreover the bottom end of the scale isn't anchored at zero even in the US.
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Was that the ips display? IPS is used by graphic designers because it has higher contrast and better color fidelity (and viewing angle). Not sure about screen brightness though, and the response time is less.
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I agree, other than a few operators there's nothing new here, it's just bits of ruby/py etc combined basically (the object stuff looks like yaml :) haha, kinda fun), and as you mention it looks great in small snippets, but gets really unwieldy in practice from what I've seen.
I applied recently to Server Density (but was rejected). What attracted me was their job description offering "unlimited" vacation. But you actually get a bonus if you take more than 5 weeks. I thought that was a good way to make sure people actually use their vacation time.

http://blog.boxedice.com/2011/08/19/our-holiday-vacation-pol...
Yeah I downvoted you. You claimed it was odd that people would buy based on X when it's clearly you that are the oddball running extremely performance critical tests that demand specific hardware. It's pretty clear what your purchase decision should be and it's also pretty clear that this doesn't apply to over 99% of everyone else in the market for an ultraportable laptop.

This comment continues in that line again and paints your absurd outlier case of 4-10x improvement as "an accurate picture of the return on investment" while again committing the error of thinking these 2 machines have the same form factor.
what scoping rules make javascript better than python for evented programming? I am not a big JS writer, but I can't seem to see anything important (nested functions, globals).

Maybe you are referring to the fact that JS has an arguably better syntax for anonymous functions?
Well, the written word is a less limited medium, it plays straight on your brain. Plus, there's a mountain of it compared to film. If you like that kind of thing, you have to read. Note that George R.R. Martin is /fantasy/. If you like more realistic speculation about our future, tech, or ideas, you'd want SF proper. That is best imo in short-story form, at least to get started with; try a Year's Best collection or, go haunt best-of threads, for SF, or fantasy.
Really?

I'm sure every shell has different quirks. Not to mention new versions of the shell come out, which could cause problems if you want the output of the format string to remain comparable with old data.

The worst problem of course is you end up with things like PHP's real_mysql_escape_string($str), which i would hate to have condensed into sprintf(buff, "%rmes", str). Let alone different versions for ksh/zsh/{insert thirty years of UNIX history here}.
Perhaps I'm crazy but I honestly feel mandatory parenthesis here improve readability

{createServer} = require 'http'
{createServer} = require('http')

console.log "Server running at http://#{host}:#{port}/"
console.log("Server running at http://#{host}:#{port}/")

At the very least, it improves consistency which to me improves readability. Making something "look like language" (or perhaps "prose" is more appropriate) doesn't improve the parsing process for my brain. In fact, the inconsistency with the rest of the non-language "code" throws it off the tracks.

Even if it didn't, I'd still say the ambiguity is not worth it. Perhaps CoffeeScript needs a "use strict"; for the final stroke of irony.

One more question: Why "#{foo}"?

Is there any template language that uses this syntax? (I am not familiar with one.) If it were up to me, I would have chosen "${foo}" to be like Mako, or plain "{foo}" to be like Python's string formatter, or "{{foo}}" to be like the more recently popular Mustache.

Edit: As cschep points out, the "#{foo}" syntax is Ruby string formatting syntax. Thanks.
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With all due respect, your graph ends in 2007, right before it hit the fan. The income of the bottom 20% is virtually flat from 1980 to 2007 in that graph, with a slight, temporary, swell in the late 1990s. Add in the last 2 or 3 years on the tail of the graph, and that seems quite consistent with the article showing the bottom quintile (20%) losing a few percent of income between 1980 and then.

The other quintiles, even the 21-40% group, have made real gains, and that's good, and most of your arguments apply to the other 4/5. However, it looks like we are slowly creating an underclass.

Do these people really have clean drinking water? Safe streets, homes and schools? Clean, healthy, food? A decent public education? I'm not talking about cheap toys, I mean basics of life.

Final rant: this stuff is personal for me. My family and I are a single income family, near the top of the 4th quintile now (< $120 K may not sound like much in Sunnyvale, but it goes a little ways in Sacramento), but I spent most of my childhood fairly poor. I was about 16 when Reagan's reign of error started ("Reagan" being a figurehead to represent the era and all its players). I went to college in the mid 80s, and watched the door to inexpensive public education largely being pulled shut bit by bit during the 80s. My academic abilities were in about the top 2 to 5 percent, but how is a poor, but smart, kid supposed to go to college now without piling on many thousands of debt? Are we doomed to live in a world run by legacy dullards like W???
This book is rather naive. It starts with a quote by, the inventor of Smalltalk, Alan Kay. The book focuses on Java.

Smalltalk is a message-passing language. Java is a method-calling language.

A book about object-oriented programming that doesn't distinguish between message-passing and method-calling fails to express how languages like Ruby and Objective-C work.