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I agree. Here's why that will never happen (and I'm sure you know this):

Only the mistaken need proclaim their philosophy with grandiloquence. It is painful for atheists to proselytize with the only effective mechanism--propaganda--as it is a cognitive dissonance. The psychological truth is that the young mind is highly pliable and choice of religion is an axiom--unlike a formal system, the human mind has no need for internal logical consistency. For some large percentage of people, the only effective method is propaganda and indoctrination--an unfortunate irony.
While I agree with most points on the article, Its ridiculous to single out a person (in this case founder of Stickers company?) who only gave a decent positive advise to someone else.

Correctly so someone in comments of original blog pointed out the stickers guy is not a nOOb and a successful entrepreneur.
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Yeah i see how this will play out. Now we have 2-3 Buttons per item just for facebook.
Because you can read something and like it aswell as want/watch it.

More buttons higher pageloads because not many sites use the 2-click versions yet.

Maybe someone should rethink the overall share model and find a new way to do it. Over time there will be more and more buttons all over the place.
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Focusing just on Xcode for a second, the spirit of the rant is not totally off the mark. The latest version 4, has been, on the whole, a step back. If you were used to Xcode 3, suddenly a lot of functionality is no longer there, or moved, or replaced, or hidden away in a deep recess. To make things worse, a lot of documentation is now hilariously out of date. For example, just about any Core Data guide/sample code/tutorial is not applicable to the brave new world of Xcode 4 (or iOS 4 or OS X 10.7). And there's no indication that any of them will be updated anytime soon -- I speak mostly of Apple's own docs.

In other words, there's a lot of pain, currently, surrounding the de facto tool for iOS development, even for seasoned Cocoa programmers. It's too bad the original story (the one Gruber's responding to) got so off track talking about other nonsense (reference counting?! Does that objectively really matter?) when there are so many real problems that actually exist with iOS development.

Thankfully, these problems aren't necessarily permanent -- just as long as Xcode 4 continues to get refined/fixed, and documentation is brought up-to-date (i.e. no more Core Data how-to videos that use Xcode 3 on OS X 10.4!).
I think as soon as you are starting for real-given the founder are hackers and will be doing most of the coding, a hardware solution amortized over a few years is the best solution.
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Which makes me wonder... what happens when we want to use the "glowing cats are treated" technique for the next kitty aids?
I see.

I'm not sure you do. I think Dawkins is essentially right about how religion is evil, and I think he's done a great deal for the atheist "movement". At the same, he came off looking like a sexist in the Rebecca Watson fiasco.

The point is, I think his message is correct and important, and yet I think he's probably a sexist. These two are orthogonal attributes.
I'm more interested in knowing what PgSQL does better than MySQL today, in 2011. MySQL definitely has a few caveats, my question is mostly, is PgSQL now significantly better than MySQL or they're both more or less the same, with different pros and cons.
I agree!

The man is one of the most important thinkers of our time. He is gracious and intelligent. His arguments cut with such logic that they often offend. When people have their belief systems ripped from under them there is bound to be high emotions but Dawkins handles all this brilliantly.

I think an excellent ambassador for Science.
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While this is a big deal for anyone hosting data in Japan, I question why it had to be in Tokyo.

The earthquake in March suggest that it might be prudent to have data retention in other areas of the country.

While Tokyo is a big city and that comes with pluses for access, it has the following minuses:

1. real estate is expensive relative to the rest of Japan.

2. summer is hot - why have data centers in Tokyo and not up in the mountains or up north where it's cooler?

3. the Greater Tokyo area is due for a major earthquake. In addition, there's historical data dating back centuries showing that a big quake in one area is followed by big quakes in other areas of the country (although fingers crossed that we don't see a 9.0 quake).

There has been a lot of press over the past few months about companies in Japan putting effort into backup facilities that aren't in the Tokyo area. After the quake in March there were blackouts and a reasonable amount of chaos - just imagine what it would be like if the Tokyo quake actually occurs.
Since a lot of my livelihood depends on Ruby and getting people up to Ruby 1.9 (a far less painful world!) is a big part of my strategy, I've priced this to sell.. and I doubt even half of $16 would be that interesting to an affiliate :-(

However, I will definitely have some bigger things out in future.. :-)
The latter, or maybe iframes.
Would this "bashing" be tolerated against any group other than Christians?

The 'intellectual fight' for 'enlightenment' is the thin veneer the anticlerical Jacobins lay on their murderous ideology. Loot the Church, rape the nuns, kill the christians - started here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_the_Vend%C3%A9e, repeated too many times in many places over the last couple of centuries.

And when their legitimate heirs Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot murder a few score million people, these Jacobins start talking about the "crimes of the Inquisition".

Good going.
Really? This reminds me of Tivo, who thought they had a great way to monetize the middle between content and the cable companies.

Netflix is on it's way out, just like Tivo. They have ZERO leverage and are doing everything they can to turn away customers (price hike, worse service, god-awful PR...).
According to Wikipedia, Fundamentalism is the "strict adherence to specific theological doctrines". According to my dictionary, the definition of theological is "Of or relating to or concerning theology". Atheism, according to Wikipedia again, is "the rejection of belief in the existence of deities." It seems to me then that I could argue that one could be an "Atheist Fundamentalist" although that wasn't my point. I was using the term liberally, and by way of analogy.

My point was that it is this stubborn adherence to a particular point of view that got Dawkins so fired up in the first place. And, although _I agree_ with Dawkins point of view, traveling the world telling people they are "idiots" for not thinking in a particular way is just as bad, or worse. Even if it is a view backed up by science.

This video posted by Hacker News member 'robertk' gives you a good idea of Dawkins general attitude: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_2xGIwQfik
Agreed, my wife would go nuts if I was home ALL THE TIME. People need their own space. You need time away from each other to have something to talk about
Can you give some examples of the "many cases" in which a government spends more wisely than an individual?
> Our goal is to make it possible for you to add all of your payment cards to Google Wallet, so you can say goodbye to even the biggest traditional wallets.

Most of the cards in my wallet are IDs and discount cards (driver's license, student ID, a couple of grocery stores, gas, bus, train, AAA...). Even if they add support for all payment cards known to man, that would only take two cards out of my wallet. It's a great idea, but it's definitely not "replacing" traditional wallets anytime soon.
> wannabe hypochondriacs

so meta...
Also, the Tea Party has so far found a far more effective means of political engagement than protests like these. For better or worse, they've actually gotten involved with electoral politics, and they've had a huge impact.
No, the idea that the human race is progressing morally is a highly contentious bit of Enlightenment philosophy. The fact that we can have this conversation over the freaking internet is ample proof that humanity is progressing intellectually, given that it requires an insane amount of distributed knowledge and capabilities that didn't exist when the Enlightenment was beginning.
Maybe datacenter companies could offer bare-metal cloud hosting. They rent out the servers and keep the hardware physically working, your devops team handles all the software aspects.
It's a reasonable expectation, but I've seen a few different chips tapeout and all of them missed their performance targets by varying amounts. There are just too many things that can go wrong, and unfortunately quite a few of them usually do.

You're right that the low-power ones probably have more accurate simulations than the high-end ones.
I made no claim that anything is positive or negative, I merely pointed out that you are factually wrong on two of your points.
he had me at "dumbfuckery".
A few from my personal experience:

* microsecond granularity on timestamps, rather than second

* transactional DDL (if a migration fails halfway through, you don't end up in a broken or inconsistent state)

* really superb documentation - clear and detailed explanations of hard stuff like locking semantics

* No silent coercion/truncation between data types

* Functional indices (as far as I can tell from http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=4990, MySQL doesn't have these)

* http://postgres.heroku.com (yeah MySQL has RDS but I've not heard great things)
I'm going the other way. Coming from Java/Python and having studied C/C++ briefly, this looks like a huge improvement and something I would actually use for a production project. Hopefully in a few years time there will be more videos/books/tutorials that further explain how to use C++ in this way.
Agreed. To add on to that, I'd say have skills, have a good network that knows it, and don't be an asshole.
Presumably running a plugin like noscript or disabling JS would mitigate this attack, then.

I wonder if at some point we're going to have a backlash against JS apps, which are really just the fat clients of the 1990s in a new container, as attackers discover more and more exploitable weaknesses in client JavaScript implementations.
If you read the post carefully there is actually no mention of developer access to these buttons. Obviously it might be the case, but all the text says is that you'll be able to click one of those actions in your feed. This makes more sense to me. You're responding to someone else's like.
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Guys, if you don't like clients and don't like most clients' ideas, then, uh, don't take on clients.

Programmers can:

1. Work at Big, Co. and make a decent living.

2. Work on your own projects and sell them directly to consumers (App Store)

3. Take on potentially douchey clients and their ideas.

If you can't stand the thought of #3, then just don't do it!
the guy sounds like a dick to me.

As I said below, I think he probably is a sexist, but I wouldn't go so far as calling him a dick. As someone who only recently became a feminist, I think it's easy to make the mistake of thinking that Watson was over-reacting. This is probably what Dawkins thought - which of course makes him a sexist, and unaware of his privileges, but all this, IMHO, still isn't enough to make him a dick.
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Read The Box. They didn't work very well, frequently breaking down and they weren't very fast either. As I recall after that first generation the emphasis switched to good port facilities including good cranes (but a lot more is required including enough ground transport).

Quite a few historical ports essentially died for one reason or another while quite a few went from virtually nothing to world class (in both capacity and traffic). All in all it's a fascinating story of technology and technique development and diffusion.
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and it got me thinking of another point. These gamers were able to solve something that was not solvable because the gamers were not met with constraints/ rules/ expectations normally associated with the people involved with the research. And, as the authors of the other article stated, "Try to encourage open-ended behavior. It's not about goals, it's about pushing the boundaries and discovering something" So, if you are seeking that spark of innovation, try to remove yourself from all of your constraints and negative thoughts of "no, it can't be done this way" and try to think outside the box.....
Sigh. There is no such thing as a "female inclination". I know, it's almost unbelievable, but there's no secret rule book on what women have to like.

I wish I had the answer why women are not interested, but from what I see from inside the industry as well as from what I hear from my non-tech gfs, there are many components.

Missing role models are one of them. Before you go dismiss that off hand because it doesn't fit your world view, how many female role models can you name? How many male ones? Notice something there?

Then there is the fact that quite a few guys get very defensive if you even mention the idea of interesting women in tech. It comes across as not wanting them around.

In my previous industry (games) you can also add in that many places are a frat house on steroids - not too appealing to a lot of women.
Unfortunately, I can see Digital Agencies and SEO Specialists recommending (and clients of both requesting) a slather of buttons for every conceivable type of Like on the off chance that someone actually clicks one.

I don't mean to point fingers, but I don't think this sort of thing is going to get any better: http://i.imgur.com/VeUr1.png
Decent advice? Is there any evidence that the guy has any experience running a technical company? Because to me, his advice sounds vague in a dangerous way. "Nah, you don't actually need to know anything about what your business does — just know what's right and what's wrong for it and get people to do that for you." If that were technically possible it would be wonderful — you could just bumble around cluelessly and profit from it. My experience with people who take that approach, though, leads me to doubt it.

More likely he's a sales guy and he made a product-sales business with minimal software needs. Good for him, but you can't generalize that to "Founders should barely know anything about technology."
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> They’re not hackers, but they understand that programming is a craft; that programmers are artisans, not serfs.

Gold. Pure gold.

I've long wandered in the wilderness. I've had years of writing bullshit business applications. I've even dabbled in investment banking (where programmers, excluding quants, are the second lowest paid professionals at the bank, only higher than support/IT people). I've worked on bullshit semi-startups.

Now I work for Google where ironically... I write internal applications. This may seem like a cruel joke but it's really not. There is so much respect for engineering as a craft here that it occurred to me that it's not the writing bullshit business applications that was sapping my will to live, it was the business-types who so consistently treated engineering as an interchangeable cost center.

I've done the freelancing thing too. Never again. The world is full of delusional people who think they're the next Steve Jobs and that their idea, by itself, is worth something (it's worth precisely nothing).
The interesting part is that (IIRC) CS has the lowest number of women in all tech fields. You can find plenty of women in other tech fields.
There is a difference between writing pages of text in one sitting and writing bits and pieces spread out. I was specifically responding to the use case of entering that paragraph of text the parent mentioned.

If there are situations where physicians have to type pages of text not spread out over the day but all at once they probably shouldn’t use a software keyboard.
Possibly the most noticeable change is the lack of a flat screen TV on this flyer.
eh?... TARP was passed under bush, before the Tea Party was a thing. And has turned out to be a pretty solid investment.
Apple didn't invent the difference. It just wasn't that important until it applied to Apple. That difference, and the consequences of it, are one of the most important distinctions between Apple's mobile operating system and it's competitors. What ten years ago may have seemed like trivial academic pedantry may now be a significant competitive advantage or disadvantage in a lucrative market.
Rackspace offers this but it is about 4x more expensive than their cloud offerings, but they also offer you the option to have a mix of hosted and cloud.
According to articles posted all the time, women are consistently outperforming men in university acceptance, performance and graduation rates. With trends like that, it seems that things should be getting better for women soon.
You just described an act of theft. That wouldn't be legal in a free, capitalistic society.
I'm sorry because this is unrelated, but speaking as an interested and even encouraging consumer, FaceCash has some of the most horrendous branding I have ever seen.

The logo looks childish at best, nightmarish at worst, and the motto is vaguely threatening. Didn't the Joker make someone sign with his face in The Dark Knight? As I recall, it was fatal. The narrator of the videos needs a drink of water - the smacking sounds are incredibly distracting - and the reason the name sounds so terrible is because it's a near-homophone for "Face Gash."

I really want to love this. I do. It sounds really useful. But I can't even look at it without flinching.

But, as my English teacher was fond of saying during critiques, feel free to tell me to go to hell. Perhaps I am not in your target market.
Not much detail in that. Here's the author's Arxiv submission http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.2949
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There are a fair number of people who hated the Bush part too. They might not have had the name, but the split was there. I get the feeling if McCain had won the Tea Party would still be here. It's not like the policy would have changed.

I would really like to know what you would cite from TARP as a solid investment.
So Greece should become the world's first anarchist state? Paying taxes there is only supporting corruption, bureaucracy (including their debt holders) and inefficiency. Part of their problem is that no one was paying taxes to start with. Not paying taxes is a form of corruption.

What you are talking about is a problem of government accountability. What you are suggesting is fighting fire with fire.
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Softlayer offers this as well. You can spec out a box however you want up to pretty exotic configurations, get billed monthly, and can SSH into them in 3-4 hours.

It is expensive, but not as expensive as something like heroku or aws for equivalent cores/RAM, and you get real hard drives.
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Earnest, educated, rational. Yes, these words might describe Dawkins, but well-meaning?

I agree that indoctrination into a fundamentalist religion probably doesn't give a child the best chance at a happy, well balanced life. I think it is important that science continues to be made available, and people like Dawkins make it not only available, but easily digestible and understandable.

But seriously, running around the world, telling people they are "idiots" and to "f*ck off" if they don't see the world the way he does? Doesn't sound very well-meaning to me.
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just went through the application for shits and giggles (didn't attach anything personal), and yeah it's pretty much what you said, imo a good filter test
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I get the feeling that someone who grows up with a different service will be harder to recruit later due to the earlier slight.
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According to Wikipedia he is 33, which would probably be a little old to have created a Dragon Ball Z fan page on Geocities in the 7th grade (probably late 90's timeframe).
No details about this attack have been made available to anyone who can publicly corroborate them, and yet the researchers are doing press interviews and speaking publicly about how they've broken SSL. I have no idea what the details of this attack are, but in my experience, when people hype an exploit for weeks before making details available, it's because the exploit isn't really very good.

I realize that the security industry is built on hype, but this is fucking dumb.
The link points to an article demonstrating how people who play Magic the Gathering are marginalized by mainstream society.

The freelance programmer who wrote this piece is not Jon Finkel, a full time Magic the Gathering and poker pro.

Try harder.
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You have a fair point, name calling isn't particularly endearing in intelligent conversation.

I suppose the strong language is a response to my feeling that Dawkins did abuse his position in that incident.

I also feel that he is an unnecessarily divisive personality due to the hard line he takes (look at the controversy his name being mentioned on HN has caused amongst a group who I would imagine are sympathetic to his message).
The keyword is most. There are clients, rare though they may be, that are actually realistic about specifications and pay. Most importantly, they also understand that if they are going to be a tech company, tech is the single most crucial aspect of the business plan. Those are the clients you need to find, and it is unlikely that you will find those clients on freelancer's sites for the same reason that it is unlikely your idea would attract Sequoia investment by submitting your business plan via their online form.
Nowhere in the article does he claim authorship of that link? I think the author's intent was to draw solidarity with Jon Finkel, who is (probably) not a programmer but instead a several time Magic: The Gathering world champion and a manager of a large capital fund.
THe emulator is awful, even on really good hardware. I use a nexus one, which was the original developer device from Google, I think they have a new one out. Find out which phone is recommended by google.
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Anyone know if what netty uses by default or SSLServerSocket are vulnerable? The article says SSL > 1.0 is ok.
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