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Mixing the job suggestion (which is probably good) with the idea suggestion (something people are biased against: execution vs ideas). alaskamiller's comment below/above is more practical in terms of the job.
Find and replace "designer" with most other occupations and this list is still applicable.

That's not a good thing.
BUT A BLOG SAID SO!?!? Who are you going to trust? Citizen journalism or corporate PR machine that's poisoning you?!?
Any startups doing anything interesting with MS Silverlight?
I have an idea for a rich media site, and I think Silverlight is the perfect technology for it.
Its also still in its infancy which is great as it means my app is more visible and its possible MS will use it as a "Use silverlight it rocks and you get this cool website to use!" but it also has the con of chance of Silverlight failing and me being stuck with an app in a dead language.
So my question, is anyone working with Silverlight? How do you find it? Are you worried about the small (but growing) userbase?
Wow that is some ignorance there. How can you possibly have an opinion contrary to Buffet's? The man is clearly the greatest investor of all time, and he's betting $3 billion so you can be sure he did his homework. (He always does).

So what is it you know that he doesn't? Do you think his legions of brilliant employees, who've been doing this sort of thing more successfully than anyone over the past few decades, missed the fact that GE has a large finance division? The same Warren Buffet who has been warning for the last few years that all of the loose credit and complex derivatives based on the loose credit were going to come crashing down?

I'm not meaning to suggest Warren Buffet is infallible, but there are maybe a handful of people in this entire world who know enough to ever firmly have a contrary opinion to one of his on such matters, and they surely don't read this site.
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Can these stories please move to somewhere more suitable?

http://www.newmogul.com/
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Chances are always that Warren Buffet is right. He's made a career out of being more right than anyone else and for more money than anyone else.

For all but maybe a few people on the planet, to have an opinion that he is wrong is pure conceit. For a layman to say he is wrong is akin to an accountant disagreeing with Stephen Hawking on the topic of black body radiation.
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I agree. My personal experience is that complaining about the noise makes it more annoying by creating personal conflict - even when done extremely politely and respectfully (and, so far, it has never done any good).

The best thing is to not focus on the noise (but at the same time, acknowledge it would be better to not have it, and take what steps you can). This is the best way to cope with it, not the best way to solve it.

If things are objectively contravening local noise laws (e.g. loud music at 3am on a weeknight), I call the police and don't get upset.

- An ordinary fan (white noise) really does help to mask the noise. I was very surprised at this.

- I found that objectively looking at exactly what the cause of the noise was helped. Specifically, to methodically list the path the noise travels to me, and in what situations I feel annoyed, and then to consider what I can change about each and what I can't. For example, I found that one window didn't close properly, and the air gap let in a lot of noise. I hung some sheets across the room, and that helped too (perhaps partly a psychological barrier).

- I often work in cafes (oddly, that noise doesn't bother me there).

- I find that I get lost in my work, and then when it gets hard I become more conscious of the noise, and more annoyed by it. Could it be time for a break? Taking a walk (away from the noise and the work) really helps me.

- there was an odd effect that when I did everything within my power to improve my situation to cope with the noise (that is, instead of trying to change others) it really made me feel a lot better.

- yes, move. So far, for me, it has made a big difference, but there is still some annoying noise at sometimes. I need to move again; but I do wonder that perhaps there will always be some noise, and it's best to find ways to cope with it myself?
Ask HN: Best partner language for Java -- Python, Ruby, or X?
In August, globalrev wondered what Ruby has that Python doesn't (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=283639). I have a related question.

In my day job I am a Java engineer working on enterprise software (I know, I know). I'm considering taking the time to gain expertise in another language that is strong where Java is weak (I currently stumble around in python with decent results).

No offense to language people, but what I care least about is obscure edge cases. I have no pressing plans to do class metaprograming or crazy language-hack magic in general. I do appreciate elegance and simplicity in a language.

I definitely want something stable, widely deployed, with a rich set of functionality/libraries -- thus my initial thoughts of python or ruby.

What language would you recommend? Why?
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Either Python or Ruby is a good bet. I'd personally go with Ruby. I could rack my brain for good, logical reasons, but I'll keep it simple: I've used both and I like it more. Other people prefer Python. I do think that JRuby is a bit further along than Jython, but that's probably not a deal maker.
Buffet + Rose = win

What to people think about Buffet's post-investment media presence? Is he expending trust-capital by pushing for the bailout when he has $X billion dollars freshly invested?
Citation that people don't hold equities for more than four years?

I have held equities for more than four years. Most of my portfolio, actually. Daytrading and churning positions are for people with more time to devote to the market than I care to. But maybe I am fictional, as my grandmother gave me one of her BRKb shares in 2002 (which I still own).
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not too impressed with this article..

When was client side javascript a server side performance bottleneck? On the contrary farm out as much work as possible on the client instead of doing it at the server, like sorting tables and stuff. Things like javascript tabs are also worth lot in terms of performance, serve one page that contains the content of 10 pages = less requests to the server.

eAccelerator = old skool, why not APC which is the php opcode cache favoured by Rasmus Lerdorf?

Why no advice on using a cache in apache or in front of apache to serve static stuff directly from memory?
As with everything the trick is to practice and practice and practice. (Whistling is easier than unicycling, though.)
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Given how long it takes Google to build/test/whatever their products I bet they've been working on it since before blogs were even invented. :)
Every person I know that knows Ruby knows Python while the inverse is not true. Despite liking Ruby, I suggest trying out Python for the larger user base.

That being said, one thing that you may prefer about Ruby is that its both more OO than Python (you do len(array) in Python and not say array.size) and more functional, so it may be more consistent with your knowledge of Java while exposing you to all the joy of functional programming.

While I'm blabbering, I also suggest you consider learning as many weird languages as you can. I think its usually kind of informative. (I suggest running through a tutorial where you build something in that language so you have a feel for where its strong and weak, and then if you feel extra motivated, coding something up in it.)
I'm reading 'The Road to Reality. A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe'. Be warned: Penrose doesn't use the word 'complete' lightly. Well worth the effort however.
Go work for a start up. It's the best place to meet and learn from talented developers, founders, VCs, well-connected board members, etc. Build and keep those relationships.

Brainstorm ideas and then sleep on them.

Hack on the weekends.

And then when you're ready, make your move.
pffft.. screw startups, go work with the best people in the business on one of the best projects out there, Bioshock 2. 2K Marin are looking for level designers.

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I second that. Meetups are the best way to get in touch with like-minded and interesting people.
I still don't fully understand decorators, but it's definitely true that implementing context managers with decorators is much more succinct and straightforward than manually writing __enter__ and __exit__ methods. And context managers are definitely a win.
I can't back up your experience, but it sounds reasonable.

That suggests that Python is more orthogonal to Java than Ruby is (er, before I trigger a deep language discussion, I mean much more generally - in terms of application, libraries, userbase, available documentation, examples, etc) - again, it's not something I have hard analysis on, but something I can probably believe anecdotally...

So if you're looking for a "partner" language, then all that would suggest that Python might be a good option (i.e. less overlap == more complimentary).

... That's some pretty rough logic, but maybe something to start with.
Is anyone else here who thinks that the first rejection of the bailout plan and the subsequent agreement was done on purpose to generate the stock market fall, where insiders could snatch up valuable stock ?
Since you've started with Python why not stick with it?

Python and Ruby have way more in common than the good natured ribbing the two communities give each other might suggest. Besides which, Java/Python is a very employable combination.

Once you've gone a bit further with Python why not try some ruby, then lisp/erlang/ocaml etc. etc. etc.
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The bailout is not designed to change their mind long term, it's designed to resolve the current crisis without a great depression.
How about compromising for the sake of having a job/customers/money?
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Seriously, I realize I'm being another "not Hacker News" commenter, but it's getting to the point where I really don't want to come here anymore. Around the new year, I was excited about Ron Paul and frequented the politics subreddit in order to get every snippet of news I could. It wasn't long, though, before all of the "world is going to hell" topics just got to be depressing, no matter how true some of them might have been.

It's now getting to the point where coming here is depressing as well, what with all the topics about this financial crisis. I realize that it's an important event that affects all of us, but there are very few things we have control of in this matter. Like it or not, Congress is going to do whatever they want regardless of how much we debate the issue.

So can we please move on and focus on the things we have some control over, like our startups and other programming projects? Is anyone doing any fun and interesting these days? :-)
Wrong. No regulation OR good regulation is bad for them. They benefit from PARTIAL regulation.

And regulation, much like circumcision, is as Robin Williams said. "You go all the way, or just forget it!"
I've tried it, played with it, and it's honestly just so much less-rich than Flash and significantly slower than Flash that we bailed on it and went with Flash. I liked the idea of Silverlight (I'm a .NET guy) but at the end of the day, it was more about user experience than developer experience and we felt Silverlight just didn't give us what we thought our users wanted.
Finally a bit of economic analysis that's actually worth upmodding, unlike the "Bankruptcy is the answer" retardation.

Thank you for posting this, as off-topic as it might be.

I'm quite sure the comments will get overrun by Ron Paul supporters claiming Warrent Buffet has a vested interest in the bailout, all the banks should be liquidated, etc. Before you make that comment, please read this paragraph carefully:

Time is of the essence: “I mean, if Pearl Harbor came along, you could have said the planning was wrong by the military ahead of time or maybe the battleships shouldn’t have all been in the harbor and all that kind of thing. … I mean, the job is Pearl Harbor. And you better not spends weeks and weeks and weeks trying to assign blame or deciding on a complete plan for fighting the whole war, you know, and letting a committee decide where the battleships should go and all of that. You better spring into action with the best people you have. … it’s very important that the determination of the US Congress to do what is is needed be made evident this week and by the actions of most of the members.”

Blame, putting culprits in prison, figuring out how to stop this from happening again, all this will come. But first you have to stop the economy from free-falling into a depression. Priorities, people.

I'm not going to repost all my arguments about this, they're all already in this other thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=319646
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This is super good news, especially for when blogs start to geocode news and articles. I know that Google News has certain requirements that must be passed in order to be qualified to be linked from it. So too Techmeme is a human pre-qualified source of blogs and MSM.

I wonder how democratic this Google Memetracker is? Can it work out the reliability of a blog just by who links to it or whatever other methods, without the human intervention seen on Techmeme?

Give it two columns and I'll make it my homepage; ideally it should have a Tech news category too.
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jruby doesn't work very well at the moment. Dog-slow performance on the jvm, buggy. I'd suggest trying out Scala. Eventually jruby will catch up, but supposedly it needs java 1.7 jvm dynamic language support to be effective.
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I still don't follow the article's conclusion that you need 2x as much swap as physical memory. I generally go with physical memory + 100-200MB. That leaves enough space to suspend to disk even if you use a bit of swap in normal operation; I've never had problems with that setup on systems that have enough RAM to be tolerably fast. If in doubt, buy more RAM - it's dirt cheap at the moment.
There is a site that started in Australia that allows people to trade services for equity. Check it out: http://www.webequity.com.au. Note, just over a week ago they launched an international version.

Also, you could setup a pledge system, whereby money is called upon from pledgers only once a certain amount has been pledged. http://www.sellaband.com does this to help musicians do albums. Here, you could have say a few high profile angels or personalities to whom you've pitched make an initial pledge and then others might follow. The amount isn't that important, it's their profile/reputation. The site that could help is http://www.pledgebank.com.

Also see:

http://www.fundable.com http://micropledge.com http://www.chipin.com and maybe even http://TipJoy.com.

The good thing about doing purpose built fundraising site for startups is that a lot of the marketing work would be already done for startups that want to use it. In other words, the startups gathered in one spot would attract the investors.
I'm sure the Boy Scouts and their wooden arrows are an important issue, but what in the seven-and-a-half-names-for-God does this have to do with bailing out the mortgage industry?

They should just have a reverse Christmas: build a giant Christmas tree and have each of the lawmakers come up and write down what they would like to see under it. Wooden arrows, AMT, raising the FDIC limit (which is actually relevant)

Issues like fixing AMT are huge and have broad support. The only differences are whether to raise taxes or not. Guess what? No need to make that choice now, we'll just stick in a few billion to cover the difference for a while and still NOT fix the AMT, thereby managing to look like we've solved something while borrowing still more money than we can easily pay back.
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I've always been rather dubious about Penrose's approach to consciousness. He seems to be of the school of "Put two metaphysically mysterious things together, in the hope that we can explain one in terms of the other."
Another excellent explanation that doesn't gesticulate wildly and incoherently towards panic, bankruptcy, firesales, etc. Thanks.
Go for Ruby. JRuby is actually faster than Ruby, and will improve in future versions of jvm. Calling java classes from jruby is simpler than calling Java from Java. If you're using Eclipse as IDE, I suggest you try out the DLTK Ruby plugin for code completion and debugging. Netbeans IDE is also a good bet.

I've never gotten used to python's use of indentation as syntax. The __magical__ method names with double underscore looks just plain ugly. In my opinion Ruby code looks more clean and simple than python.
Really cool, that sounds great. It'd also be great to be able to export .psd files that are fully layered, but I'm not sure if that's even possible.
It drops support for 'older' versions of windows...

Including older versions of win2k, winme, win98 etc. They're not only not supporting it, but they've removed code for older versions of windows.

So if you want to distribute portable apps, don't use 2.6+
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I'm doing something in Silverlight, but it's just to have a rich version for 1.0. We'll immediately hedge it on release with a JS/CSS/Canvas version. I agree with Scott that it has performance issues, but nothing that's causing a real problem. Also we're storing the data on S3 and eventually the main logic engine on EC2, so the idea is that it's only for a rich, but very dumb, UI. I'm still, at this stage, happy with the decision to use it -- if that helps you at all.
The rule of thumb (swap should be 2-3x RAM) has survived because it has minimal downside (you don't generally miss that amount of disk) and a small upside (you see performance degradation as the first symptom of memory overloading, rather than processes dying due to failed allocations).

Yes, if you know your workload very well, you can trim off the spare space and make it smaller. But the risk you run is that a change in circumstances will make itself known by failing jobs, rather than slow-running jobs. And the benefit you gain is very small.

A keen sysadmin could also trim swap down, if they're sure they'll notice warnings early enough in the event of a problem.

(This assumes 'normal' amounts of disk+RAM in a box (i.e. diskspace at least two orders of magnitude bigger than RAM, so you're sacrificing of the order or 2-3% diskspace). Unusual devices might reasonably make different tradeoffs).
Road to Reality is nice but the other two books you mention are not so much. Biology is very much a show-me science and if you can't actually prove or demonstrate it then ... I dunno what to say. Don't bother anyone with it? That sounds harsh but it is the case.
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Well you can try doing one of those mobwars type games. Some of them are profitable, just come up with a good idea, and make some good images(most of them have crappy looking images).
There was also an interesting article in wired on the belt: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.04/esp.html
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I'm pretty decent at ruby, but only know a little python. :shrug:

The OP should try both for awhile. One striking difference I've found between the two are the communities. There's the python community, the ruby community, and the rails community, and they have vastly different memes and "tenor". One might fit the OP better than another.
Yeah, that's what I've thought. Blaming kind of made sense when things weren't collapsing, helps us fix the system. But now, blame is the least useful thing, and people rejecting the bailout just because it looks like getting rich people off the hook or because they don't want to pay for other people's mistakes is completely ignoring the real issue of economic meltdown. That meltdown will affect everyone no matter how financially responsible they are.
If you like games, then do games, don't do web apps. Web apps are good for stuff that needs the web, but for stuff for whom the web is just a nice thing, but not neccessary, web apps are often not the best solution. It's easier to sell desktop software than web software.

And another important thing: Don't start a business from a position where you have little money. It will make you cut corners for the sake of making money, and you will not like your product as much as if you had time to really craft it out. So I advice you to find a job which is stable and does not take too much time, then develop your game on the side.

Game programming takes looooong, and nobody will finance you while you try to make a game. Get a job, do it on the side. It's the adult thing to do. Anyone who tells you to quit everything you have and play the lottery with your life savings probably has something to gain by you doing this.
I'd disagree here, although I do like Scala. JRuby is, in general, not "dog slow", especially not compared to MRI ruby.