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there is a difference between being able to install your jurassic .net framework on a current version of Windows and having its source code, something that would allow you not only to run it on current computers but also on almost any future computer that may possibly exist. Forever.

You're simply assuming that someone will continue to port Python 2 ad infinitum. Granted there's no reason to suspect that they will not (Except that at some point, Python 3 really catches on, and decades down the road people stop caring about 2. At that point you could port an interpreter -- but you won't, which is my point).

But there's also no reason to expect that I'll be unable to run my MS-based code. I mean, MS has ensured compatibility for, say, ancient Visual Basic code for forever. Real world experience shows us that there's no reason to be concerned about future compatibility. You're right that in principle it might be left behind, but experience shows us that this doesn't happen. The code I wrote 16 years ago for Win95 (and much earlier, for that matter) still runs.

That's the philosophical argument. The practical argument is Mono. It's open source, so anything good you can say about FOSS applies equally to .Net. It has the backing of both open source and corporate muscle. (although I have to grant that Mono doesn't cover 100% of the platform, I can plan my system to stay within those bounds)

Why is it that you assume that MS will dump backwards compatibility, but you're also willing to assume that someone will be interested in keeping and old FOSS platform alive (and that the tools to do so will still be functional)? It seems that in this argument, you want to have your cake and eat it, too.
This article is just one eye-roller after another, but if I had to pick out one that really made my jaw drop:

> The company’s engineering isn’t especially impressive.

Buddy, your writing isn't especially impressive, and your armchair engineering is impressive only in its astronomical ignorance. The scale at which Facebook operates, volume of data and requests, and cacheability profile of its page views, and its development velocity makes it possibly the most impressive web company in terms of engineering. Granted Google and a handful of other companies are up there as well doing different, and possibly slightly more impressive stuff depending on who you ask, but to suggest Facebook's engineering is middling just paints you as a giant tech buffoon.
like any language feature it can be abused, however I find I like it
Why not show an actual, legible, signature? (John Doe or Jane Q. User or something.) Even with the signature line it still looks like visual gibberish.
3.5 months is not that long. Say you developed some crazy-cool product in 2 months (!!), you would still need to have completed customer acquisition to the point of $2k profit - not revenue - in just 1.5 months!

What about fixed (ie non-variable) expenses? Will they lower the 3.5 month timeframe?
The main problem I have with this lifestream idea is with how all the data is in one central location online. Because it is connected to the internet, there is always the possibility that it could be attacked.

It would be a relatively enticing target. If the lifestreams of thousands, not to mention millions, of people were mined, the information found in there would be priceless.

Of course, if it is a piece of software you can run yourself, and you can save your whole lifestream on your own storage devices, I think it is a wonderful idea.
Many comments on this very same project can also be found on its former incarnation:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2987488
Am I just in the wrong program at the wrong school at the wrong time?

Yes. Maybe the wrong program, definitely the wrong school. (You have little choice about the time, so forget about it.)

Suggestion: Be the person you want to meet. The only person you can control is yourself, and even that ain't easy. The other students are idiots right now? Well, give them a chance to learn.

The rest is just a chaotic process; maybe you meet people that you click with, maybe you don't, maybe it comes easily, maybe it doesn't. If you get lucky, it probably won't come from a direction you expected, so stay open to all the opportunities you can find. Do what you can to improve your odds, in the meantime.
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Also, this fictional account appears in Wireless, a collection of short stories and novellas by Stross. It is great to see that medium still alive and publishable.

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People who are only willing to pay half of the market rate are not their target customer.
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You can certainly have multiple entry points, although you can't then statically model it with just prev in a simple manner.
> > Nor can most organizations continue to evolve open source project X.

> Can you name any project X you feel fits your hypothesis?

That seems an odd question to me. Pick a random organization that is using some FOSS package. I bet you that this organization is not going to be prepared to evolve that system, either due to skills or to other resource issues.

How many companies out there are going to be able to port Python or LibreOffice or what-have-you to a new platform? Most don't have the skillset. But even if they did, they won't have the resources to keep the developer working on that rather than the internal projects. Sure, there are exceptions (and I'm glad there are), but those are just that: exceptions.

Even if the theoretical possibility is there, practical considerations don't allow it.

Most companies do not have the resources to contribute to FOSS, and even fewer companies actually do it.
It was free before; glad to see it free again.

I can't recommend this enough. The clever writing and gameplay go hand in hand. It's just beautiful.
So -- has anyone here actually used any of these languages? Or better yet, given them to an actual child? Any feedback?
And as for apples? Believe it or not, my research found that while it may look fresh, the average apple you see in the supermarket is actually 14 months old.

I'd believe 4 months. Maybe 8. But 14 as the average? That would mean apples more than 14 months old just as likely as those less than 14 months old. Something about this statistic seems off.
I got the same thing when I scrolled down to the bottom and clicked on "Next page".
FB groups are totally different to G+ groups. For a start, they're a misnomer: it's not a tool for you to group your social network with. Instead, it's this really horrid kind of "interest group" idea, except it revolves around you, and instead of people joining, you include them. Yuck.

FB lists are kind of like G+ groups except they're a PITA to setup and you have to go out of your way to use them when sharing something.

Another thing I hate about FB is the way the entire service is about sharing everything. You have to be really really careful not to overshare anything. In G+ I know exactly what I'm sharing and with whom.

Screw you FB. I hope you die in a fire.
I know that the developers of Guido van Robot were getting positive feedback from users. And I got emails from parents and teachers using rur-ple. One high school teacher has actually used it every year since I first wrote it in 2004.
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I agree - more than 1 year makes no sense whatsoever. They grow each year, why would someone pay to stick them in a fridge for an entire year? It's not like the crop is that variable that it's necessary to stockpile them.
You're acting like I've never heard of either Emacs or Vim before, and you shouldn't do that. The net effect is to make HN less fun and less useful for everyone.

Because the next time I think about starting a conversation on, say, similarities and differences between successful, competing software packages and the cognitive models they encourage...

I'll remember that this time, when I tried to keep my opening post friendly, informal, and solicitous, you assumed I was an idiot.

I'll be sure not to make jokes when I think someone else is getting too uptight, because jokes are emotional and text editors are serious business.

And most importantly, next time I'll establish my credentials up front, by prepending everything in my .emacs.d to all my posts. It's a little verbose, but it means nobody gets insulted by being mistaken for a n00b.

Plus, in Conkeror, it's really easy to write a regex that will detect 30,000 lines of custom elisp and set it to {display:none;}.
Works in Mac, Chrome at least. Just drag any image from your hard drive onto the Google Image Search browser window.
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in fields like fashion and life style, etc., mom bloggers actually know your customers better than you, way better. and they represent they group of people with the appropriate purchase power.
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There are positives to the data-entry pain: once somebody's entered their data, they have a real investment in your system. Question banks can be reused and grown, so the pain does decrease over time. Depending on how easy or difficult you make it to export their data, it may help user retention.

For users zero to ten, you might want to consider taking this problem off their hands: let them upload a photo of a worksheet, and let the system "magically" transform this into the proper format. (ie, OCR the data, then edit it yourself or pass it on to mechanical turk). If they're not completely convinced of your value, even with this level of assistance, then you've got no market. If they do buy in, then you can figure out how much pain you can leak back into the system before they balk.

One potential value-add: math problems from teachers often have hard-coded values. Current test-bank software lets teachers convert these to formulaic question generators, but this is even more time-intensive of a process than straight data-entry. Applying some "magic" to this process is a ripe opportunity.
If i could upvote this comment 100 times, i would. I've seen that comment before, but had forgotten about it. It sums things up much more eloquently than I can.
That's my problem (and goal) right now: money.

I figured the gap would be quite large, so my goal now is to graduate from the two year program I'm in now, so that I have at least something under my belt, and then move on to bigger and better things at a bigger and better school.

Thanks a lot for the comment and advice!
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This article does not demonstrate priming, just marketing. Priming would imply that what I saw in the front makes me shop in the back. But all the examples listed are to make me buy the item being displayed, not a different item.
This is great advice. I'm generally fairly introverted, so this is something I could put some effort in to and hopefully get some results.

One thing I need to make more of an effort in is to meet people outside of school. I should, and will, look in to some local meetups and things of that nature to meet people.

Thanks a lot for reading and commenting!
Reverse engineering can be done legally (in most jurisdictions) but that doesn't you want to invite an expensive lawsuit to prove you did it cleanly.
This article could really do with some photographs. I don't think the local Whole Foods by us does some of these things.
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Ahh, makes sense. Thanks for the explanation.
In North America there seem to be two seasons for apples: autumn in North America, and autumn in South America. In September and October you get the fresh NA apples. In March and April you get the fresh SA apples. There is no reason to have an apple older than 6 months.
I am not an expert on the industry, but from my armchair I think netflix will live or die by offering productions a better deal directly than the big studios. I expect some sort of anti-trust legal fight in an attempt to limit the lock in measures the big studios can put in the contracts they leverage.
If they don't give me a budget I give them an hourly rate until I know what budget they are working with. That said, I prefer to work on an hourly arrangement if at all possible.
ROFL.. Did not bother to read url or any of the comments until I had finished the story. I was gettinginto the article very seriously and copied a few things to google until I realized what it was. HAHAHA
As a fellow CS Grad, my one little piece of advice is to just give it some time. You've got a weed-out course coming somewhere after your intro classes, and those left will be the ones that are really dedicated and have the tools to press onward.
What would you change? I'm curious.
This seems like a good insight. It's true that most of the people I'm judging (sounds negative, but I guess that's what I'm doing) are the ones who are quite outspoken. perhaps there are some gems in the rough, just hiding.
> I'd think out of the box on this, and just give the user another channel to control the page turning. The most natural choice I could see would be some sort of eye or head tracking.

I think the most natural is a pedal, which has actually been implemented.

Grandparent's suggestion of ambient audio seems rather inadequate. Pianists don't turn pages always at the very end of the page. They read ahead, and how much they read ahead depends on the particular passage.
I've gotta wonder if he meant 1.4 months. In this economy, nobody would keep 14 months of product in inventory and hope that there's a buyer for it down the road.

The bananas I buy here in the US are flown in from South America in under 48 hours. I can get tulips from Holland in less than that. The apples number makes no sense.
Apples do store very well, a big reason why they're historically popular.

But I suspect you're right to be suspicious of the word average here; they probably meant to say up to.

More evidence: http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/supermarket-apples-10-mo...
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As one of the "really awesome friends" that groovy2shoes mentioned, I have to say that he is spot on. He and I were lucky enough to be put in the same group for a software engineering project, forcing us both to forego our usual policy of avoiding other Comp Sci majors.
Other people had luck with clubs (LUGs, 2600), but I always felt like an outsider when I tried to go to things like that. Keep an eye out for the people that seem to keep to themselves, you might find out that they too find the majority of your peers revolting.

Good luck!
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It's shameful to find this kind of pseudo-science on the front page of HN. Most of the article details plain old communication at work, but the author chose to paint it under dark intentions.

If a salesman chooses to put on a suit, cologne and an expensive watch, he's being professional about his job. He wants to communicate value. According to the author, this salesman would wear luxury objects to make me feel inferior and that I might attain his social status by buying his products.
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I agree. The janko keyboard layout for the piano appeals to me because no key is different from another. For instance if you learn one major scale on the janko keyboard you now know them all. Doing something similar for music notation is hard, but would be incredibly useful if done well. See http://musicnotation.org/ for some attempts.
I was in an Information Systems (BBA with an IT focus) degree program at a four year university in the United States' "Deep South". I got out of the college scene after 3 years and enlisted because I figured I could be working in IT faster (and leave the Armed Forces with relevant experience under my belt) if I left. (This was right before the economy tanked, so in retrospect it was an initiative bathed in some sort of fatefully unintentional clairvoyance.) I also figured that in going this route, I could get my foot in the door with various agencies that I would one day like to be working for. What you said about the government work really resonated with me, very true and I see it now. But I thought in college "these people don't really USE, nor are they interested in, the technology they're learning about" (this is an exception of course, some were). Now I'm saying, at my current position, "these people don't use at home, nor are they interested in, the technology they use at work" (this is an exception of course, some do). The difference in people between the two places: no difference. The difference in environment: interesting work experiences and a handful of IT industry certifications that were provided for me at no cost.
What level of class is it?

If it is an introductory class just be happy that people are there. I know plenty of programmers (including myself) who only got interested in CS because of video games. I then figured out I liked CS and didn't really like making games.
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"Just how quickly this was built (really, it was quick); and"

Sorry but not impressed, unless it was done overnight. Nothing special there, just copying from already done sites.

"2. Google wants you to use our services because they're compelling not because we don't give you any other choice (ie "Don't be evil")."

Yeah, that's why they keep filling the first page with in house junk that would NEVER make it without the Google advantage. I am already seeing adsense ads for this all over the web, how much does Google pay the webmasters for them?
Absolutely this. Even if it's not an expensive college, at least one in a city with a lively tech community. That way even if you're not getting much from the college you've still got like-minded people nearby, and colleges aren't usually too fussy about non-students coming to events as long as you're not obviously out of place.

Expecting university to automatically mean interesting people is the equivalent of popping off to the Bering Strait in your swim gear and saying "I don't get it! Beaches are meant to be warm!"
In Emacs you have kill-sexp, that works for balanced expressions [1]. Despite the lispy name, it works for any mode.

[1] http://www.gnu.org/s/libtool/manual/emacs/Expressions.html
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Totally agree with all these points. Ever since my first daughter was born I made a similar decision but I still work less hours than you do. I end up working around 40 hours a week and have never felt compelled to work any more. I will work after the kids go to bed particularly when my wife goes to bed and I don't feel like reading for whatever reason.

My first obligation on this Earth is to my family and part of that means not being gone all the time at work. I do that for the kids but also for my wife. Raising kids is hard work and she needs my help particularly at the end of the day. This changes a little when the kids are older and are less physically demanding I guess but when you have small kids you really need to take your wife's feelings into account when deciding how much to work. She really needs to feel respected and honored in the decision and part of that comes from making sure she is in total agreement with the final decision.

Also if you're any good at programming companies are so desperate to hire you that they will accept pretty much whatever schedule within reason you want. You might not be the absolute favorite employee of management but if you're good people will respect you and your contribution.
The biggest issue for you will be the side work issue. It limits your ability to take one a larger project. Which are usually the one that give you room to breath. In our group of developers we do have a few moonlighters but we have 5 full-timers as well. My suggestion to you would be until you can get out on your own full-time, team up with some other freelancers. It will broaden the projects that you can service.
This program is as entry-level as it gets. No prerequisites, two years, assumes no prior knowledge.

It's weak, but it's the best I could afford.
thanks. but it looks like its still in Beta and doesn't have a lot of advertisers registered under it's belt.
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> Really?

Ad hominem attack in the guise of a question. Be nice.
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My biggest issue is synchronizing with the client. You make a perfect schedule with the right set of milestones that works for you and your other projects, but you have to be ready to answer the phone and break your flow to attend a client that is really excited because they got a whole bunch of assets for the site and they'd like to see them live :). So you have to ready to push your calendar and move people around.
Hmm, that's interesting. I guess the environment issue isn't black and white.

I guess what bothers me about all the people aiming for their government jobs is the fact that they're content doing menial maintenance of legacy systems in COBOL or whatever the hell they're written in. I know there's probably some brilliant kids in the program, and it seems like they're all convinced that it's the best/only path available to them, and they're fine with that.
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That is why many of us tend to stop taking non-network referred clients one we pass a certain point. It acts as a filter for the noise.

I actually made a pretty big mistake in that I took on a client that bought all of our capacity for the last 2 years. It was great while it lasted but many of my smaller clients have since moved on. So now that that project is winding down, I am back to the high signal to noise ratio while I build back up my client base.
This is why Redis / *SQL is my favored stack. It just covers so many bases, you get things like safe queuing, caching, pub/sub, and weird high-performance low-durability cases from Redis, and great, safe relational support from SQL.

For best results, it's good to have at least two redis servers, one with snapshotting as a cache (fast, less durable), one with 1 second Append only files (still fast, but slower) for data you care more about.
Including Chris Dixon, CEO of Hunch, who has a MS in philosophy.
Whaaaat? Don't you know thew world is a better place if Google gets that $30 per credit card instead of organic search? Or now travel money, G offers, local etc.
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Hrm, but is $ a metacharacter in that language?
Ahahaha, of course, that makes sense. Thanks, I may have to wake up the hamster in mine :)