skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
... and if that wasn't bad enough, then the global locks and mmap'd I/O haunts you later when you have any sort of concurrency or for data>RAM, or the first time you have to take the site down to perform a compaction. Can you tell I've been burned?
It serves a rhetorical purpose similar to other factually-incorrect statements like, "Programs are meant first for people to read, and only secondarily for computers to execute."
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After poking around on their website, I noticed that this library is being developed by Telerik (http://www.telerik.com/), which is a pretty big vendor for .net libraries.

The trouble is I don't think they have a library for MVC3-ish apps with a front-end focus. At my place of work, we are ditching the traditional asp.net development and porting our app to MVC3. In the switch our Telerik .net controls were no longer usable, and we switched to jQuery UI.

I'm sure this will just end up being their solution to jQuery UI, to the corporate types that already use their current offerings.
Rather than 20 full-time jobs we need to fill them with 40 part-time jobs and then those 40 people work part-time on other interests (their own start up, works of passion, another job to bring in the money, etc.)
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As far as I understand, there is an optimum batch size that depends on the particular process. Lean manufacturing looks for smaller batch sizes, but it may not be one for a particular process.
What's funny about these books is that none of them tell you how to act like you didn't just read these books. Personally, I find the tells so obvious that I can't even interact with people that are following this advice. It's like talking to Eliza.

Anyway, if you want to win friends and influence windbags with no technical knowledge, read these books. If you want to win friends and influence people that know how to program, try programming more.
Ah, yes, the 'HEROES' act. (Hard to vote against something with an acronym like that, huh?)

That's the one that might bankrupt me if either I or the federal government ever decides I'm no longer a permanent resident -- because the taxes on the value of all that illiquid (but highly-valued, on paper) startup stock, marked-to-market, would be more than my liquid assets.

And my wife wonders why I get nervous when crossing the border.
My "done" list is the list of commits in my version control system. It actually is a big motivator, as the article said.
Apart from D. Foster Wallace, another pioneer in the usage of ironic prose in journalism would be Wired Magazine. (They started publication in 1993.)
If you take away how this looks, and start digging into the project from a beginner's perspective, this project is awful. I find this with most of the supposed "UI frameworks" out there for HTML. With a few exceptions, they mostly lack:

1. Good documentation that doesn't just define the framework, but teaches you how to use it and get stuff done with it. Code already defines what it is, your docs should tell me why it's this way and how to use it. In Kendo UI they've got a list of dependencies for javascript projects they need, then a few code snippets with no explanation as to why or how they work.

2. Good sample code, in a full complete project you can download, with documentation on getting it up and running. Your first sample code is how everyone will write code using your project. If you've got bad samples, poor formatting, and weird file layouts (or none), then that's what everyone will write and that's what you'll be known for.

3. Examples that gradually increase in complexity. Start off with a simple hello world, graduate to a chat app or something simple, and get them to a full blown large application. In this Kendo example they've got a demo picture viewer, with no explanation for how it was built, and viewing the source it looks like a huge mess.

4. Humor. These kinds of documentation are boring as hell, especially if you're just defining everything. It doesn't have to be insanely hilarious, but at least throw a few little funny tidbits in the code. Even the great tech books of our time have tiny little jokes for the people who pay attention.

5. Finally, these frameworks rarely have a "theme". MVC is a theme. Convention over configuration is a theme. There's only one way to do it. There's more than one way to do it. Themes work to help people keep the script for why everything works the way it does in their head.

It's too bad because this looks really good, and it could be the most awesome thing on the planet. But if I can't figure it out even if I want to, then I'm never going to try.

Finally, none of what I wrote above applies if your project is for fun and not meant to be a "product".
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If you are in the lower rate, i.e 0.6% of the first $7000 in wages, the FUTA tax is... a whopping $42
Let's hope the code produced by the controls is better than the code Telerik's CMS generates...
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The type system should make this standard. You should never be able to type a variable with a concrete type; only abstract interfaces. This way, extensibility is mandatory rather than a "best practice".

I worry. Java has checked exceptions. The stated purpose of this feature is to make callers consider explicitly the different exceptions that might arise from what they're calling, and deal with them appropriately.

The end result? There is an endless reserve of lazy people who don't do that. They catch exceptions and throw them out. The feature doesn't work and there are a bunch of no-op (or worse) try blocks everywhere that clutter everything up and handle errors in inappropriate ways. At least, that's my experience working with other people's Java code.

So, suppose you had to deal in interfaces everywhere. The goal of this feature would be that programmers think about how to separate and generalize the potentially-reusable functionality in the code they're writing. Would that actually be the result? I sort of suspect that the actual result would be a million interfaces that have thirty unrelated methods because they were copied-and-pasted from the class that someone made. IFooable would be equally as unreusable as ConcreteFooable ever was.

Basically, I don't think that restrictions like that are effective to stop people from structuring their code awfully. Anyone who understands the concept behind the restriction would have probably written nice, reusable code anyway, and everyone else will just hack around it with trial and error until their program compiles. (It's the same reason I agree with you about having the compiler enforce encapsulation.)
I've just installed this in an app I'm working on. It's amazing stuff. I don't know how they continue to offer all this for free. Waiting to be bought by Apple perhaps?
correct link seems to be http://www.kendoui.com/download/LicenseAgreement.aspx?skuId=...
I saw your post in the Austin, Texas subreddit. Nicely done actually having a respectable list of venues, clearly some homework went into this.

How are you getting event data? Is it being pulled in via outside sources, or are these being entered by hand?
No, the physics are still valid in the event horizon. It's just the singularity at the exact centre of the black hole that is problematic.

Interestingly, if we ignore only the point at centre, it can be shown that an object that falls in a black hole, goes right through it and is ejected at the other side. All in finite proper time. This situation is non-physical because it takes an infinite amount of time for the photon to reach the event horizon. Even if we could reverse the photon inside the black hole, it would still take an infinite amount of time to crawl back out. So even in theory, black holes are still inescapable.
It appears to be more oriented toward enterprises, who'd be happy to license this just for internal web apps. You've got Grid and Chart widgets (must-haves for internal sites that show business data), but no Datepicker (a must-have for consumer-facing sites).
Just look at Back to the Future 2 (the one where they go into the future and have flying cars and no mobile phones). The older version of main character (Marty McFly) has a japanese boss, and when talking to him on the videophone he drops japanese into the convesation (opens with japanese IIRC).
And that should be a softball question: why are you doing this startup over a multitude of others you could be doing?
I don't think English as a duck typed system works either. You can make a logical leap in an argument and nothing crashes. Many people have made very successful careers based on logical leaps, in fact.

But you can't make leaps with computers. If you forget to tell the computer which file to load, it either crashes, or nothing happens.
>That's unfortunate.

Sorry, that was rude and dismissive of me.

My comments were never about the communities being civil or friendly, they were about them being in existence. There is no equivalent for many of the support channels I enjoy in products that do not come from Microsoft. For the third time, I will note that I don't find this a fault of Microsoft at all, but just something that happened as .NET grew among developers around the world. It was merely a point of discussion and honestly I was more curious about .NET developers that leap for Microsoft products and tools in the face of strong alternatives, than I was interested in hearing Microsoft employees defend their products (or coming across myself as attacking them. If I have seemed that way, I apologize sincerely).

I don't know how "uncaught and untraceable" had an ambiguous meaning. Obviously I don't work at Microsoft and can't just fire up a debugger attached to the VS source to track down an issue. I find it bemusing that "you can't reproduce the issue or track it down", turns into, "well, it would be hard to debug without the source". (No joke.) From where I'm sitting, that tends toward "blame the bug on the user" bait.

As for the last two paragraphs, I'll merely hope that it wasn't a veiled attempt to call me a troll, considering that I merely expressed my experiences and the support structures available to me and then was told that I was wrong and didn't know what I was doing. I merely wish that the support forums were better, and that there were community lead resources for Microsoft products. Maybe it's untenable of me, maybe I should just accept that I need to come to Microsoft when I want help or guidance with Microsoft-fostered technologies.

Hehe, I'm certainly not going to say they're more friendly or civil, in fact, likely the opposite. Anyone who has set foot in ##C++ or ##java knows that there is no hand holding and a strong likelihood of verbal abuse. Yet, I still get answers quickly and get a more lively discussion about issues that are never even broached in the Microsoft "communities" (a forum does not count as a community, and certainly not channel9's 4 generic categories).

I hope this clarifies. I'm simply genuinely curious as to the fundamental nature of how the global community of .NET developers differs from that of python/go/c++/ruby/etc.

As for my identity, I have strange and history-backed reasons for doing so. I'm paranoid down to the last pixel detail of my Facebook privacy and that's probably the only thing personally identifiable on the Internet for me (outside of work related posts on MSDN forums). I'm just weird like that.
On the other hand, it's definitely possible for a language's interpreting infrastructure to deal with ambiguity in code. The difference between "natural language vs type inference" and "type inference vs assume it's an int" strikes me as quantitative rather than qualitative. You'd need a monstrously complicated system of logic to make it work, though. I'm not sure whether that thought's interesting or frightening...
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Not sure if I entirely agree. Before one of it's earlier Wordpress redesigns (around 2007), TechCrunch did a solid job on providing information on internet/tech startups before most others were looking at the space. Plenty of people doing web development in 2005-2007 were reading TechCrunch to find interesting companies and web development news.
Demo pages are completely broken for keyboard navigation (try tabbing or activating the accordion widget). Wake me up when the hard stuff is actually working (accessibility!)
The main case of transliteration I can think about is assembly language.
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A Datepicker is currently being worked on.
desperate attempt. Who really needs another social network ".....but were different than G+/FB/and twitter" ...total FAIL
What are the builtin and third-party libraries that people have had trouble with when using PyPy (modulo having to configure an appication to use PyPy at runtime instead of CPython)? For web-dev, scientific or otherwise?

In particular, are there any such problem cases where there is insufficient documentation?
Very sexy indeed. Sexy DSL for RoR? Caz RoR argument munging is pretty atrocious as well.
Wow, their new logo looks a lot like the Microsoft Office logo.

Compare: https://posterous.com/

with: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/
They'll probably be happy to learn that their site is being promoted via off-topic spam. Not that your site has any upside for the participants.
Whether you think the racial IQ gap is genetic or socioeconomic in origin is neither here nor there. The fact is that it exists, while the four-fifths rule that has been with us since Griggs v. Duke depends on the assumption that it doesn't exist. This is quite simply a falsehood. What's more, its falsity is completely uncontroversial, which makes it somewhat astounding that disparate impact doctrine has lasted for so long without being seriously challenged.

Because it demands that lower-IQ minorities be hired at the same level as higher-IQ whites, disparate impact doctrine should not be thought of as simple anti-discrimination law, but as affirmative action under another name. Now, there are points to be made for or against affirmative action, but it shouldn't be sold to the public as something else. And particularly not in such a way as to lead to so many negative side effects on the rest of society, in the form of restricting employers to less effective hiring practices. A system where employers could freely make use of g-loaded qualification processes without the threat of litigation, provided that they spotted blacks an extra SD's worth of points so as to avoid breaking the four-fifths rule, would be quite simply BETTER than what we have today, while keeping the AA-like effects. Of course, if anyone tried that at present time they'd probably end up getting sued by whites. It would make more sense to follow Ms. Wax's suggestion of switching to a sliding scale or throwing out disparate impact altogether.

I believe that disparate impact doctrine is a reason why we have the higher education bubble that we have today. It's maybe not the biggest reason, but it's probably in the top 3. There comes a point where you have to wonder if this sort of thing is really worth keeping around in the name of racial idealism.
Yeah. Mongoose on Node requires you to code and instantiate a document schema before you can do anything with the database.

Gotta sacrifice some flexibility for a bit of safety.
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Time and time again people jump to the defense of people saying "ideas don't matter" by saying that's not what they really mean. If not, why not just say that, instead of such hyperbole that certainly gets misinterpreted.
Huge fan of the TestFlight App, helps me test out lots of startups' products. Also a huge help to the startups themselves and I think the SDK will be another great step.
Sorry, it was the cognitive dissonance of being required to pay someone who was terminated for the purpose of not having to pay them.

I'd like to hire people for some long term work, but cumulative BS like this makes me not bother.
Good to know. I've gotta say, the jQuery UI Datepicker is just perfect. If I use jQuery UI on a site, it's almost certainly just for the Datepicker.
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Thought I'd share: http://code.google.com/p/rhythmote/
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Considering that Silverlight is a download, I would not place it in this category.

Someone mentioned Sencha already. The other strong offering is Cappuccino.
Are you still accepting new copywriters, and if so, is there a separate form to fill out?
I think cash helps build up an insulation layer to outside offers and poaching.

Does it, though? Is this based on anything more than gut feelings?

My impression is that it just raises the offer level of poaching, and no company is going to overpay to the degree that it becomes prohibitive, except for positions where secrecy and/or thieves' honor is paramount (see: finance).
Yes, good call, there is a one-to-one mapping between assembly language and machine code.
I thought the financial industry started in Amsterdam in the late 1600s? What happened between 1700 and 1950?
I never claimed it was laudable or a charity. I just claimed that pretty much every Mormon gives more of his wealth to this cause than Lucas does to those causes, by way of illustrating that it was not as big a humanitarian sacrifice as the raw dollar amounts might lead one to believe without knowing how rich Lucas is.
These guys are killing it. Going to bake this in to my next test release of GetCloak for iOS.

One feature I'm particularly jazzed about is the logging capture support. It is so painful to explain to test users how to capture logs on iOS!
See also: Buddhism.
This is where the abstraction leaks through. In Eve, death is just a minor setback, losing a ship may mean a few minutes to hours of work. It's still a game and people do things in games that may be objectionable in real life (see: shooter games).
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Haven't got that far yet :)

But there certainly will be, so long as there is enough interest from the hiring side.
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It's all about building report with users: make them feel like your web app is an actual person, and they tend to trust you and want to use you more.

What's better: a cold, formal tone that is very professional, or one that is casual and makes you feel like an actual person is behind the monitor?

It's all a matter of opinion, and definitely depends on what you are selling. Banks? Definitely shouldn't be doing that.
The problem I have with this and JQueryUI is that both are still too stylized such that they don't lend themselves well to being integrated into an existing design. And the JqueryUI themeroller doesn't help much. YUI probably does the best job of being generic enough to utilize broadly.
The trouble is, if coworkers know you're paid more, it seldom engenders trust, appreciation and respect.
Great idea (I also love cocoacontrols.com).

Please show more than 5 results per page. PLEASE! How about 25-50?
I'm not sure I buy that. I've been looking at moving some of our antiquated Access reports to an intranet web form, and the first thing I needed was a datepicker.
It's interesting because I had the exact same initial reaction: uh-oh, did they change anything about my blog or group?

Personally, I almost never interact with posterous through the dashboard, but this move makes it seem that I'm either very much in the minority of their user base, or that they're no longer interested in serving my use case. Possibly both.

The net result is that where I would likely have used them without hesitation for another project I was planning on before these changes, now I feel like I need to look around and explore alternatives (including possibly reverting to a self-hosted WordPress blog).
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I think MG is right that "The travel aspect is potentially even bigger. While there are a lot of people going after this problem, no one has nailed the mobile travel guide so far. When someone does, it’s going to be massive."

Partnering with Disney, National Geographic, and various universities to get their guide-content is a smart move.

Who is providing good travel guides for mobile? Fodor's? Frommer's? Lonely Planet?
This is uniquely entertaining. I would love to see this more often.

What this really highlights is that entrepreneurs aren't put face to face with someone as incisive and BS-resistant as PG or Harj nearly often enough.

Maybe there's an opportunity for an Ask Your Target Market like service which specializes in reality checks for entrepreneurs.
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Has anybody downloaded this yet? I see three css files and one minified js. What is the total size of all three of these?
Sencha isn't even remotely cross-platform, with support restricted to the latest webkit-based browsers with decent CSS3 support. Sencha's UI is pretty bad on any other device but an iPhone.
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I thought I was an idiot and alone with the same ritual! Thanks for freeing me up!
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Hit ctrl+r (on a Mac) to toggle between the code and the visualization. Really cool, though a two-pane approach (code on the left, visualization on the right) would probably be more useful.
Colour scheme is awesome!

I think its use is somewhat limited until there's search by genre however, when compared to last.fm events at least. With so many bands around it's hard to think of one to search to see if they've got any gigs on.
That's awesome, thanks for showing me that. It would definitely be cool to implement something similar for browsers with SVG support, then fallback to the generated spans for those without.
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I am working on a UI lib which is written in Javascript and completely painted on HTML5 canvas. I know, crazy idea... I got rid of the incompatibilities of the browsers, I got rid of DOM: I defined my own event system, component graph, etc... This will be someting like a traditional desktop component based UI, just in javascript, in the browser. Styling will be far more advanced than CSS: you can even inject a custom paint method into a component from a stylesheet. (stylesheets will be javascript classes). Also it will have advanced dynamic layout. (min/max/preferred sizes, weights, gridpanel with colspan, rowspan, etc...)

I am doing it in my free time (at nights), because I have no funding: it is a quite huge undertaking: I am ready with 5300 lines of code, but I still need a couple of weeks just to release a very early demo. My secret aim is to make it a flash/flex killer in the long term. In the very long term:)
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Cappuccino is the best implementation out there, because the most important thing we strive for is conformance with Cocoa behavior. Cappuccino is certainly at par with Cocoa with most things.
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Or at least give the option not to break it. Scroll-zoom drives me crazy - the slightest touch causes the map to either zoom in fully, or out too far (I wish all websites that used maps gave me the option to turn it off).