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Ask HN: DAE prefer working on existing code to new projects?
I have been working as Software Developer for couple of years now, every time I have to write new code my spirits drop. Its not that I cant write new code well, I did very well in designing and bringing up new modules in our system pretty cleanly. But sniffing old code, having a chance to polish it and improve its performance stimulates me the most. Its the same reason, I abandon many of my pet projects after few hours of effort or don't even start it. What suggestions can HN give me to reset my perspective on new projects.
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Perhaps it's the example given, a certain hair style rather than something like wearing dirty old clothes. One could look good without looking 'traditional.'

I don't think many people are going to argue about basic hygiene, if someone isn't cleaning themselves and it may have negative effects on their coworkers (like not wanting to be in a room with an unwashed person).
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i've looked at most, if not all, of the CVs & templates referred to on this page, but must say i like my TEX resume better. :)

https://github.com/cies/resume

i like typesetting, so naturally did my best. it uses the pagella font that is often used for books (with 'low case numbers' -- i love those). except the h-lines and some bullets everything is made of text. uses hyper-refs where applicable, in dark blue so 'print safe'. everything is open source, how to compile this on ubuntu is in the header comment of the tex file.

it is originally based on a file found on toofishes' blog:
http://www.toofishes.net/blog/tags/latex

please let me know what you think!
I agree their disclosure strategy pretty effed up.

Nevertheless, if BEAST is basically an exploit on the Bard attack that's been known for years, perhaps it suggests that there was an insufficiency of hype around the original publication.
The Tea Party is a creation of FreedomWorks, formerly Citizens for a Sound Economy. It's little more than a rebranding of the loony bin portion of the Republican party.
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Rather than me hiring security for my house at a rate of maybe one hour a day -- the only amount of private security I could afford -- the government pools the money of my entire community, hires many security guards, equips them, and lets them drive around my neighborhood.

Then, instead of my spending an hour or two educating all the kids in the neighborhood, in the hope that the next generation of people aren't morons, they take some money from all property owners and use it to build schools. Those schools to ensure that a very wide swath of the population, even the poor and stupid, meet minimum education standards. That way, at the very least they can go and do the service jobs that I don't want to do, and so many of them meet that minimum education level that they can be hired for a low wage, thus keeping the price I pay low.
Yeah, I gotta say, I knew exactly how it worked the moment I looked at the radix tree picture on wikipedia. After reading more than half the linked article though I still had very little understanding of what it really did.
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Kinda "useless" without links to the patches.
We are using Softlayer and we found that on our server we were not bottlenecked by memory, CPU or disk I/O. However, we were bottlenecked by our bandwidth which sat around 5 MB/s. Perhaps we could upgrade to a higher-throughput network card or something (I don't maintain our servers), but we ended up just offloading static files to a CDN instead.
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The interesting part isn't the layoffs (I am sorry for those people), it is the comment about there move to Windows. I am not sure I buy there stats.
Financial capital has always been at war with productive capital. Because it's more concentrated in power (and even geographically) it's easier for financial capital to be aware of its interests and work together towards them. Productive capital is dispersed and varied. Tim O'Reilly is the rare CEO who's smart enough to know what's going on and what side he's on. Good for him.
As a business student always getting new tech related ideas it quickly became obvious I was going to need to know some programming. I'm trying to learn some Java right now and attempted an iOS programming class...I dropped it.

I have a new found great respect for you programmers...I am very envious of your skills. So thank you all for creating the great software and technology that I use everyday.
Tim Berners Lee invented HTML. Don't cherry pick the one example that makes your point. A thousand other technologies make up the Internet and they didn't depend on war.
He is _right_ about evolution, there are no two ways about it and I never said otherwise. If someone tries to tell him that he is wrong about that, he has every right to put them straight. He is, after all, an evolutionary biologist.

My problem isn't this. My problem is his you're wrong, I'm right attitude. There is a place for that, and it is indeed Science. When you're dealing with people though, you should have some respect. If his message is to automatically _deny_ respect to others simply because of a belief they hold, then he's more like a religious fundamentalist than I thought.
Looks great on the first page but I get an error message when trying to load 2nd page of stories. I'm using iPhone
How exactly would you sniff traffic between an encrypted site and the browser, without running JS in that encrypted site, or without exploiting the browser (in which case you already won and don't need need to break SSL)? Is this some sort of man-in-the-middle hybrid that uses JS as an attack vector?
This is really helpful. I will definitely check it out.

Also, I'm really amused that apparently the creator of DataMapper is (a) selling me on using Sequel and (b) the testimonial on their front page. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.)
I don't excuse the individuals who embody such behavior. Nobody held a gun to their head and forced them to internalize this type of culture.
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Your comment's parent doesn't add anything to the conversation because it's a simple observation. I could add "I agree, people tend to spend money on things they want," and that would be valid.

But I haven't furthered the conversation because anyone familiar with the system of capitalism, i.e. everyone, knows this.
You can't please everyone. A lot of people like the logo. The narrator has also received a lot of compliments.
Stripe.
This is just stupid, there's no value to the users whatsoever
It's just a hoop they'll try to push down the users throat to make more ad money

People are not stupid, this won't catch

Also, facebook is getting all bloated
Not really. Their system is a lot different and not as beneficial for merchants or consumers.
It uses an ATmega2560. Still an 8-bit AVR but has more memory and USB host functionality.
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My understanding is that it is indeed a MitM leveraging Javascript.

However, it seems likely that other variations may surface as more people start to think about it.
That used to confuse me too. I've come to the conclusion that the reason people focus on things that don't ultimately matter is because it's easy. Anyone can see that someone isn't wearing a suit, works odd hours, doesn't file their TPS reports in triplicate, etc...

On the other hand big problems are hard to solve. People frequently bemoan the glut of poorly skilled individuals who claim to have software engineering skills. One would assume that that there could be a similar ratio of crap people in other fields, management, for example.

In short; managers focus on these things to an extreme because they are bad at their job and policing people's wardrobe is the fizz buzz of the management world.
So … what’s his qualification? He runs stickergiant.com, a site that sells stickers

Uh. That sounds like exactly the sort of superficially boring thing that turns out to be a reliable, profit-generating engine. Like the story about the guy who started a website selling bowling balls. Or a tax client of an ex, who was making millions annually selling hop-up engine parts.

I thought everything else was pretty spot on, attacking this guy for his business and for telling a non-technical guy to stay non-technical is... weird. Do you really want some guy dicking around with the website's CSS when he's supposed to be interviewing people and finding a marketing consultant?
What I'd like to see is high budget short-term projects.

$1000 for 14 days is what, $9/hour.
And somehow he gets to be the target of this rant. That is really depressing.

That is the one thing that consistently amazes me about entrepreneurs - no matter how silly, ridiculous, dull or otherwise negative opinion you may have of an idea/area - someone is probably doing something really impressive in the space. I've done a lot of interviews with entrepreneurs and honestly, sometimes I read the quick description and go 'oh god, not another one of these <stereotype>.' Sometimes, I am right, but there have been quite a few after doing my research have really impressed me. Even if I think it will be boring, I am willing to give it a chance because I've learned I can't predict what will be impressive or not with any significant degree of certainty.
As pointed out by others, Dawkins does consider the evolutionary mechanisms behind evolution. In The God Delusion he offers additional possible mechanisms to the one you mention. But Dawkins' goal is not to understand the mechanism by which religion came about. Rather, it is to show people that religion is both wrong and harmful.

You see, even if you find the spot in the brain that causes people to believe in God (if such a thing exists), it will not convince anyone that there is no God. The believers will simply say that God put it there. If you want to convince, logically, that there is no God, you have to do so at a philosophical level like Dawkins does. Having said that, I think it that there are more effective ways to achieve this goal than to ram people with the truth head-on like Dawkins does.
"actually leaving my URL this time. Yes, I am a risk-taker."
Your vitriol is misdirected. The author emailed the rant; Betabeat split it into two pages.
Whenever Blackboard is mentioned here on HN, the message is very clear. Almost everybody agree that it is a piece of shit.

Doesn't anyone think that this is the perfect market to be entering these days? The market has a ton of potential (as evident by all the money that is being spent on it) and the satisfaction with the current leaders is seriously lacking.

Are there any YC companies that are tackling this area?
It does, doesn't it? I still haven't made it through the FBP book, and I'm having a hard time with the author's savior-of-the-world attitude.
I'll see your rant and raise you one.

I posit that there are two kinds of people: Those who are good at what they do, and those who are not. Granted, it's far easier to find people who are good at some tasks than others, but the list of "difficult to find" skillsets isn't as focused in the tech industry as you might believe.

Case in point. My father has run his own lawn & landscape company for the last 15 years or so. In that time, he's discovered that it's actually really difficult to find people who are good at that job. That job being running a lawn mower, weed-whacker, and hedge trimmer. I'm a determined individual. I consider myself up to any challenge, but on my best day, one of his crewmen is worth two and a half of me in the field.

After the Florida hurricanes in 2005, I worked with my father's business for about a week in an effort to help them catch up. Two Guatemalan men on the crew called me "el burro", because while I wasn't much good at anything else, I'd pick up and drag tarp after tarp full of debris back to the trailer without question. They were half making-fun, and half serious. I ended up gaining their respect, but I'd have received my pink slip after three days if I were a hired hand.

I've taken the long way around to get to my point. From the businessman's perspective, most programmers we deal with suck pretty hard too. Care to know how many developers I've wasted time on, only to find out that they didn't know what they were doing, or were incapable of meeting me half-way in understanding a project?

Some will be quick to point the finger at me for having a loose spec, or allowing scope creep, or failing to understand the technical challenges. I'll be quick to point to the fact that I have a great network of talented, motivated programmers who jump at the chance to work with me.

I'm not asking you to talk to bullshit entrepreneurs who can't walk the walk, but I am asking you to set aside that chip on your shoulder until you take the time to know the difference.
loved one of the posters about the student loan crisis being the next housing crisis. i have a bachelors with three majors. i graduated in 2008. my education has been worth (45000) plus (5 years) plus an ability to recognize bullshit. yep, 45k. i thought i'd get a decent job. now i realize that i have to manufacture my own job.

edit: shame sallie mae loans can't be bankrupted anymore.
The system that I work on could definitely handle that with a template. Of course we have spent over a decade working on our tempting system and we employ numerous clinicians. Unfortunately our system is designed for a specific area of the hospital and our website is very vague (enterprise system), so giving you further information is unlikely to be helpful.
Ask HN: Do musicians/artists release MVP & iterate it?
I am neither professional musician nor artist. Being software developer/entrepreneur, i understand the importance of risk mitigation via MVP. Interested to know approaches in profession such as Music/Art.
But even if we get the CA issue sorted out somehow, or even if someone really only uses trustworthy certificates, SSL is still broken. That's why this is news. It's an attack on the confidentiality of SSL which (I think) has never been done before.
As a Christian... I wish everyone would agree not to call it "fundamentalism". There is nothing fundamental about the views of this subset of Christians. The term is pure marketing, wild enough for good TV and, thus, wild enough to acquire impressionable followers, and the beliefs are not fundamental.

I see the stance against evolution as just a form of We vs They, a political tool more than religious, unnecessary for Christianity at large, and damaging to the religion in the long run if it persists. I have seen it create stupidity in otherwise fairly intelligent individuals because they want to be seen as part of the group, not ostracized from their equally-susceptible peers. For similar reasons, I have had friends reject the religion entirely, as they do not want to be a part of this insanity. As for me, it is another nail in the coffin of my interest in the organization aspects.
Don't confuse knowledge with understanding. Almost all good things exhibit diminishing returns. One lesson of history is to gain deeper understanding of human nature. That is a big key to understanding politics in any age. Plenty of people become adept at politics knowing nothing of history. Another lesson of history is to understand the balance between conservatism and progressivism. Birds need left wings and right wings to fly. Healthy societies need conservatives and progressives, but the so-called left/right dynamic is only the most apparent dynamic in politics, the one with the most entertainment value; and so the entertainment industry exploits it and ends up devolving political discourse. Think of the carnival side-show 3 shell game. The shells moving around and the banter between the con-man and the shills distracts everyone and provides entertainment. Where the ball ends up is the libertarian/authoritarian dynamic of politics. Most people don't have a clue, but if you have gained understanding from history (which requires studying a balance of sources) you see it. History is only one course of study to gain understanding of human nature and balance.
The particular words you've quoted have managed to condense a thousand pictures — an infinite number, really — into 45 words. It's kind of a counterexample.

Some examples would certainly help, and probably diagrams would help understanding the examples.
"I respect you as a person too much to respect your ridiculous beliefs."

(I originally thought Dawkins once said that; if he did, he seemed to have quoted Johann Hari [1])

[1] http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/334644
I don't think it's that the trivial problems are easy, but rather they don't understand the hard ones. Everyone has an opinion on the color to paint a bike shed [1], but technical problems are much tougher to conceptionally deal with.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_Law_of_Triviality

Edit: fixed link - thanks
Can anyone say "linkbait"?

Hate to be a party pooper, but this was total garbage. We all know what's wrong with freelancing.

No need to pick on the sticker company guy, either - I've heard he's a great fellow.

Zero intellectual substance here.
Tech is never the single most crucial aspect of the business plan, the single most crucial aspect of any business plan is the bottom line.

PageRank is awesome, but adsense pays the bills.
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Hi nathan, how does this compare to S4?
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You are grossly overestimating the difficulty of complying with HIPAA.
Do you mean there's a two-click version of the Facebook Like button? Do you have a link to more information about it?
Hi dateembermage,

I feel your pain - both in terms of product features as well as the way Blackboard do business, which is exactly why we set about creating an alternative.

You might be interested in what we're doing with Lexim (http://www.lexim.com.au) - a new take on an old and outdated approach to delivering teaching online.

User enjoyment and efficiency are two of the main drivers in our design approach. In my (biased) opinion, I don't think it could be easier to get documents, links and your syllabus into the hands of students. We have randomised, auto-graded quizzes that update the gradebook (without destroying the previous marks) and a whole lot more.

Full disclosure: I am one of the founders of Lexim, and thus totally biassed in my view ;).

Cheers,

Michael
The Tim O'Reilly Factor?

In my only semi informed opinion, it seems that this sort of crime is so distributed and hard to prove that it likely is just too difficult to create a convincing case to a jury of folks who may or may not really grasp what really happened on wall street. I am not even sure that many of the fraudsters even knew the full consequence of their actions. I am by no means defending anyone here, I just think that the "crime" is too difficult to package up neatly.
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HIPAA does not enforce anything related to the number of ports or any other such nonsense. Most hospitals use standard laptops and desktops with more ports than a tablet will ever have.
You raise an interesting point on the male developers, and I admit I may be suffering from filter bias - I have interviewed plenty of guys who have no passion for the business, but never hired them, so I am making claims about the guys I actually work with.

As for the females, I can honestly say I have received maybe one or two resumes from a female for a developer position, in my life.
I used moderncv. I like it pretty well. http://homonculus.net/static/jfb_resume.pdf

EDIT: Embarrassingly, I seem to have lost my bullets. Have to dig back in and find them.
Hospitals generally print out a copy of electronic records if patients want to see them.
Well, at least Android allows competing app stores, most notably Amazon.
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> Restless leg syndrome for example. I know because I get this from time to time but I don't think its an illness to be medicated...

That's like saying because you have a mole that you know skin cancer is made up.

My wife has, at times, been up from 10pm to 6am, sobbing because she's exhausted yet can't sit still for longer than a few seconds. It's sure as hell not a "little discomfort". It's not "my legs are itchy", it's "I cannot stop moving my legs at all without experiencing extreme discomfort".
Actually there is absolutely no need to wait till you are running $10K cloud bill to buy your own hardware. There are plenty of real cheap second-hand boxes you can buy from equipment recycling companies.

The real killer with the cloud is bandwidth and storage. With my colo deal I am paying about 5-10% of what bandwidth would cost at Amazon. Not to mention I can put any kind of storage I like with the actual cost per Gb to buy outright being equal to monthly cost on EC2. Go figure!

Cloud has its place to handle spikes of demand, but it is really not cost effective to scale.
Going through the challenge I just realize how many damn addons for firefox don't support 6.0. TamperData though still kinda works after fudging the install.rdf. It seriously lags though.
Most hospitals use WiFi networks already. Most clinicians use their cell phones in hospitals already.
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Hm, that seems strange. The default SL server configs don't have 1 gigabit cards, those cost 10-20/mo more - perhaps that's why?
It's because you're running OS X 10.6+ and your browser supports the HTML5 GeoLocation API. Snow Leopard introduced the CoreLocation API which periodically sends Apple the network addresses and strengths of all the WiFi routers near your mac, which returns your triangulated position.
Is it so ridiculous to single someone out? If perhaps people didn't so quickly and easily open their mouths the world would be much better off.

Suppose we restrict the outcomes of him being called out to two possible scenarios:

1. He becomes offended, writes a retort, etc. Both he and the writer are filled with indignation.
2. Laughs it off as he knows much of what he said is correct though sees from the writers point-of-view what he was getting at. Both are improved as long as the writer himself does not take the feelings attached to scenario 1, that being of maliciousness/anger or rather someone giving in to being controlled by dumb emotions.

Personally I have quite little faith/trust in people who become wild upon hearing the slightest possible insult or whatever. It's like people who give in to 'road rage' yet the next day themselves has a small lapse of judgement. I think what I'm trying to say is, who cares or in an even more vulgar term, 'haters gonna hate.' :P I would prefer it if we all were held more accountable to what we said and those who think and act intelligently have near-nothing to worry about yet those who act based on silly ideas and superstitions will forever be in fear of being called out.

And, I associate tact and similar concepts with when talking so I can agree that it's not always appropriate for public comments.
You can't defy the abundant flaws in religion unless you are a perfect human being.
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Exactly. I am another Australian, but living in China. I have worked around Asia, in the UK and last year in the US. After working in those various environments, I would posit a generalization that Americans seem to completely miss internationalization a fair whack of the time. This is despite their own country rapidly becoming Spanish speaking...