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"Orders of magnitude more productive" isn't true -- except in the case that the productivity of people on a failed project is zero.

For projects that get completed, I could believe two or three... Maybe more in cases that are trivial to do with rails.

The nightmare I've seen happen with Ruby projects is that the "developers" are often web designers who know how to do things that are easy (or trivial) to do with rails, but get in over their heads rapidly.

Python, on the other hand, has a culture of doing the 20% of the work that gets you 80% of the way to production, announcing that they're done, moving on to a greenfield project, and then laughing at the "Blub" programmers in PHP and Java who work so much harder to get things production-ready.

Java's greatest strength, on the other hand, is it's greatest weakness. Java has a huge number of libraries that make it possible to do wonderful things, like Lucene and Hadoop. There's "more than one way to do it", which means that real-life systems might have 5 different JSON libraries used in different parts of the system. A programmer who needs to work on a small part of an application might need to wait for Maven to download 650 megabytes worth of JAR files. When you have 650 megabytes of dependencies to deal with to work on 65 kilobytes of code, it takes a very small amount of bullshit per kilobyte in the dependencies for you to spend more hours messing around with the build system than you spend developing.
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Indeed. And there are many more nice examples in the cookbook: http://mojolicio.us/perldoc/Mojolicious/Guides/Cookbook#USER...

Also check out the command line interface which allows you todo things like this:

$ mojo get http://mojolicio.us 'head > title'

ref: http://mojolicio.us/perldoc/Mojolicious/Guides/Cookbook#Comm...
I've been wondering about this for a long time, but just as a data point if anyone cares, it has reached the point recently that HN is basically unusable for me a lot of the time, and I really am starting to give up on trying and spend more time elsewhere instead.

Perhaps one visitor is no great loss -- I'm hardly the personality around here that someone like patio11 is -- but I hope my contribution is constructive, and my comment scores have always suggested so.

However, subjectively, it seems like the quality of posting and voting has taken a sharp nosedive since the "Unknown or expired link" problems have become a several-times-per-session occurrence over the past few weeks. I can't help wondering whether long-standing regular contributors are being put off as a result. If positive contributors can't even log in to refute an objectively incorrect post with a verifiable link or downvote Redditesque diversions, a downward slide seems inevitable, and then the loss of high quality posting and voting becomes a self-sustaining decline.
$ echo "Hello World" > hw.php && php hw.php
Hello World
$ ls -l hw.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 gareth staff 12 Oct 11 11:23 hw.php

By this stupid metric, PHP is the greatest programming language ever made.

12 byte Hello World must mean that it's also the ideal solution for every other programming problem, right?
how's that chair when it gets a little warmer (assuming there is no a/c ;)?
Thanks for the link! I've been accumulating a library of PDF books, articles and cheat-sheets that I can carry around on my development laptop and always welcome another resource.

You may find it funny now, but 5 years ago I almost always carried a couple of paper books in my suitcase when I traveled on business. My back is much happier now!
In terms of safety, alcohol and tabacco rank worse than illegal substances like Marijuana, LSD, MDMA and other illegal drugs.
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yup, see above ;)
This may seem a bit naive, but given how many people complain about banking services in non-US countries, specifically as it related to merchant accounts and SaaS offerings, isn't there a business to be made solving that problem for those people?

Couple issues I can see:

1. Maybe it's that the market is too small, but if you made it easier, I'd bet you'd have more customers.

2. Working within the legal/financial systems in those countries may be too difficult???
Although Requests looks very nice, I've wondered why most people wouldn't simply use pycurl - http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/ ? It's stable and you get all the power that cURL has (which is a lot), and the API is fairly simple - although maybe not as pythonic as the Requests API is.

On a side note: last time I checked urllib2 (which actually drives Requests) could not do SSL requests over a proxy, which gave me the feeling that this implementation still isn't very mature.
When writing comments, always make a copy of your text before hitting submit (CTRL+A, CTRL+C). A good strategy for any text form on the web.
Yes, please. Tell me how this language, before it even launches, is finished, or has been tested in the real world, is already doomed to fail.

Oh and it's posted on a Perl blog. Completely objective I'm sure.
What makes it better than the Aeron (except for the price :)?
Apps essentially exist because of the limitations of the mobile OS - or, rather, the browser of the mobile OS - to access web content. As the web is changing and mobile devices are progressing (from a hardware and software perspective), apps are really becoming redundant unless they are embedded as part of the natural interface. Certain pieces of functionality make sense to keep "app-ified", but others i think will converge to become part of natural interfaces, much like what has happened to twitter with iOS5 and facebook across all mobile OS's.
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All illegal drugs are not equivalent simply because they happen to be currently illegal. Some of them aren't even particularly bad for you.
BrainGate[1] was the first BCI for paraplegics, which used Utah arrays to record from the motor cortex in order to guide movement. Matt Nagle[1] was one of the first people to try it. I wonder what is different in this case.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/BrainGate
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Nagle
Funny footage of PG speaking at YC NYC in this video.
Hacker News is open source, so it seems as if nobody is interested in fixing it. Or are there fixes and pg has rejected them?
Sugar, you're right. Natural organic unsweetened dark chocolate "in moderation"? No concerns, antioxidant, aphrodisiac etc. pp.
I don't know when nginx.com/net came to be, but it's a much nicer site than nginx.org. Almost corporate looking.

Good luck to their team.
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>Making them legal will give the cartels even more power because they will now be able to legally sell drugs in the US.

Does Anheuser-Busch engage in lethal turf warfare in the manner of Al Capone? Yes, I agree that the cartels would move into legal territory but quite frankly, as someone who spends a lot of time in Mexico, the country would be happy to see the terror gone, jobs created and the tax benefits reaped.

Re: legalization and decriminalization: see recent studies in Portugal where addiction rates and criminal activity is plummeting.
It sure looks good! Is it also ergonomically appealing?
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Tim Ferris does a high dose of mushrooms (psilocybin) once a year. He says that each trip has had a major positive impact for several months and solved a major problem in his life.

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/17192634 @ 0:33:42
I thought this was to combat cross-site request forgery attacks?

Else couldn't one set up malicious scripts to up-or downvote many stories, or post comments under someone else's name?
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That's the whole point of trolls (or Non-practicising Entities), if they don't do anything (besides sue) then they can't be countersued on the basis of patents they infringe.
Yet many young people in no way require the amount of health coverage older people do. Why should they be forced to buy into something they don't need? Each year we go through our health care presentations we have numerous people asking to opt out but they aren't allowed.

Yes it weighs on the minds of many, but not all. I am all the more willing to pay as you go on my health care but I would prefer to see reasonable coverage for catastrophic care which is what really becomes expensive.
Surprisingly good although not complete: http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx0x.html

Unfortunately a lot of companies don't use today's compilers, but use many-year old versions. For example, Apple still ships gcc 4.2 which is over 4 years old now and supports none of these features.
The man himself asserted that certain experiences are integral to his outlook, and by extension a certain measure of his success. Maybe you don't like how he came by those experiences - so what? What fallacy is being committed here?

I wouldn't conflate his position on hallucinogens with his opinion on alternative medicine. He doesn't have to be either all right or all wrong.
Yes please, fix it already. I this problem where in another site we would be posting complains from random blog posts over and over again.
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It's not fine for a plain GET, it's awful.

I'm still surprised every time I use it that they've not released a modern library for it in .Net.
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Your implementation is not x86 ELF. Regardless, I don't recall the author's insistence that finding the smallest executable was desirable. "Stupid metrics" make for great educational exercises.
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Ok yes, I know, obviously a lot of people are moving away from RIM.

In the context of the article, by "anybody" I meant companies and organisations, who are working with highly sensitive and confidential information. That's the segment the phone in the article is trying to compete in. In order to move these people away from RIM, they have to build up trust though, which is a long process.
First, PHP is the greatest programming language ever made. (imagine DiCaprio screaming "I'm the king of the world!" on the Titanic)

Second, there is no point in using it for that when you have bash ... because bash has echo built-in and bash is a programming language:

$ echo "Hello World!"

1 line bitches! I can feel my unix beard growing ...
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Curious to see the pitches! And not just because my start up is one of them.
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Australia has low self esteem and a 'you'll never make it' attitude which is pervasive. There is little consciousness within employees of the concept of 'equity' which can often be replied with 'I don't work for 'free'' - or even for for 'less'.

It took us 3 months to set our our facility using chargify which was fuct - whatever. But now it works and it is awesome.

I moved to the bay area from Australia for the knowledge hub and to find hackers who are also environmentalists (who seem to be as rare as hens teeth). The amount I have learned technically in a short period of time has been profound.

I can never go back to Australia. It feels like a ball chain has been removed now I am in an environment that cultivates, even reveres nerdy freaks and dreamers.
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While there are atomic instructions, they usually require memory barriers to ensure modern CPUs order the instructions properly to get the desired behavior. This can have a negative effect on overall performance if these atomic ops are hit in hot spot.
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Well stated. It always turns me off when people use mysticism as a comforting hand-wave for things which can readily be be stated more plainly, as if shedding some rationality on a subject makes it any less awesome.
Just to beat a dead horse, most languages, especially scripting languages compile down to something else. I don't use GWT, but I could understand the lure of using a known language that has established great tools to create a powerful web applications. From what I understand it will even optimize then obfuscate the javascript for you. As for the degradation argument, that is a weak negative.
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Mostly I worry about about prohibition causing corruption in the US. The War on Terror has done a lot to erode civil liberties, but the War on Drugs has done even more.
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Other than as an interesting intellectual exercise is there any reason to do this on a modern computer with Virtual memory?

Surely, once you get below page-size (e.g. 4K) you are just wasting memory that will get loaded anyway?
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I believe you entirely missed the point. This was more of an "Look at how you can abuse the loader and play with ELF headers" and in general show an interesting 'hacky' article, not "this is smaller, thus more efficient" argument.
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I think there are still plenty of easy avenues to search for the man's (or team's) identity. It would only be appropriate to crowdfund a pool of bitcoins for a bounty on discovering Satoshi Nakamoto's identity.
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Assembly, C, Javascript and Java are equally "expressive" in the sense that they're Turing complete. Anything that can be "expressed" in Javascript can be "expressed" in Assembly.

Most of the features people like in Javascript can be faked in some manner in Java. Anonymous objects can be used to insert anonymous functions into Java code... At great cost in verbosity. Variables never really escape Java "closures" but the resulting immutability leads to a functional programming style that has real benefits.

Javascript's real advantage is a clearer syntax that's easier to learn and easier to read. If statically typed languages value concision, we can get the benefits of static types with little cost.
Which fallacy?
I'd actually say that the most important consequence of materialism is that everything is connected. There's no sharp boundary between mind and body or self and other, only atoms interacting.
I don't want a big house with a big yard. I grew up in Manhattan and I'm perfectly happy in an apartment. Yet in San Francisco, despite sky-high rentals, there's a shortage of rental apartment buildings, apparently because the city restricts their construction and height.

And then they wonder why people move out of town as their families grow - SF has one of the lowest proportions of households with small children of any city in the nation.
She obviously didn't get the memo about the 10/20/30 rule of PowerPoint.

http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2005/12/the_102030_rule.html

If I had been in a room where she presented this live, I would've fallen asleep in about 5 minutes.
can get a few bits off by using some well known shellcode techniques.
I think xor ebx,ebx is smaller than mov ebx,0, for instance.
> "even in part"

Unless you were a personal friend of Steve Jobs, I don't see how you can possibly support this statement. You're saying that you know, for sure, that Steve's experiences with drugs did not influence his intellectual development or his sense of aesthetics in any useful way?
I wouldn't worry too much about traction. See Google Wave.
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The reason we are making monkey noises and pointing fingers is because we expected a better JavaScript, not a Java that compiles to JavaScript. We already have that. It's called GWT and this is just GWT 2.0 with a pretty name.
Your welcome to believe that it is bad for you and that you don't want to do it, but I disagree that that should translate to you saying other people can't do something.

We could easily replace pot with any number of substances, even legal psychoactive drugs. There are plenty of alcoholics in this world, does that mean that if I can enjoy alcohol occasionally and responsibly I shouldn't be able to? Many anxiety patients abuse their benzodiazapines, should patients that follow prescribed treatment and benefit from them also be made into villains?

I'm sorry for anyone who becomes dependent upon anything and hope they get help, I have experienced it with members of my own family. I'd like to think that a legal structure and clear education would help (though I don't recall in High School ever being given any instruction on responsible drinking, which should happen in my opinion). But some of us benefit from smoking within reason, from indulging in the rare psychoactive break from reality, that some people have problems with these things - doesn't mean everyone does.

Edit: I realize in the opening I use "you" saying other people shouldn't do it. In your comment, you don't make any explicit mention of supporting prohibition, and was using you there in the plural sense, apologize for the comment.
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The Jewish calendar year is 5772. That means 5,772 years after Biblical creation. The biblical patriarch Abraham was born in the Jewish calendar year 1948. Going by that as the inception of the Jewish people, they are 3,824 years old. Historians would put the inception of the ancient Israelites at 1200 BCE.
you miss the point completely....with legalization there would be practically no difference between a mexican drug cartel and a mexican company that produces acetaminophen.

When was the last time you read about an acetaminophen cartel(you can call it Cold Cartel to make it sound cooler!)
I think that's a great point about working towards a minimal viable product. I was shocked to read recently about all the wasted time spent doing things like implementing versions of Python and Javascript on Parrot instead of working to make happen its whole reason for existence, Perl 6.

http://whiteknight.github.com/2011/09/10/dust_settles
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> service companies are hard to scale, and unlikely to grow their value in a short time. This is not what your VCs have in mind, basically.

It depends on your services I suppose, but I don't think it would be especially hard to generate revenue by selling Nginx training and support. A conference, seminars, books, support contracts, etc.

Sadly just having an official company behind it will be enough to get approval to use Nginx in a lot of enterprises--sign a fat support contract so you can cover your ass and not think about it again.
Not sure about how easy it would be for an out-of-college, non-US person, with no social circle experimenting with such substances get hold of, say, LSD.

Part of the non-legalization problem is that if forces you to go down dark alleys which are certainly not compatible with the all-is-good, geek experimentation philosophy. If forces potential users to associate with the hardcore underground, with all the risks that might entail. On top of that, you will never know what you bought. Testing kits aside, and the futility of trying to scam people on dirt-cheap to produce substances, I would have trouble swallowing anything I wasn't confident I knew it was what it said it was.
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I stand partially corrected, you can apparently run OS X in a VM, but only on an OS X machine you buy from Apple.

"to install, use and run up to two (2) additional copies or instances of the Apple Software within virtual operating system environments on each Mac Computer you own or control that is already running the Apple Software"

So no, unless I missed something, you cannot run it in VMWare Workstation, and I still cannot run it on the $1800 (including Win 7 Pro) box I put together that has better specs than a $4500+ Mac Pro.
IMO, the main issue with this is Batteries are expensive and degrade over time. Which makes it very hard to trust an independent 'gas station' to actually give you the real product and deal with the older battery's correctly and swap in new ones into the mix, and creates huge incentive for people to ‘miss report’ how many times a battery has been charged etc. You would also end up with a 'full tank' lasting a somewhat arbitrary distance depending on how new your replacements where.
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Reducing Apple's success to 'four easy steps' is simple-minded. Just a phrase to get people to read this article.

If you think about any one of these 'steps', you realize it depends on countless other aspects that the author doesn't have space (or imagination) to write about.

I can understand what bothered Jobs about this writer.
Except, you are not going to keep your hight tech battery's after the first fill up. When things settle down it may be reasonable to have 3 or 4 grades of battery's at every station, but good luck going to a random station and them having an apropreatly aged 2013 honda civic battery in 2026.
I imagine this optimization can only happen once escape analysis is performed. In the general case, address-of moves the data to the heap, or causes it to be stored on the heap in the first place. Correct?
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> FWIW the Jew discrimination in Moscow State University was non-existent by early 90s, and likely even earlier than that.

Quite possibly because all the Jews left by that point? That was around the collapse of the USSR, when the borders opened up. My family and quite a few others just left.
I clicked the first 2 or 3 slides, and did not see all ten mistakes listed at once. I am NOT going to click through 60 odd slides to see if it might be worth my time to click through 60 odd slides.

Probably decent advice in here, the comment is more on attracting views. Let me know it's worth it.
I think you may be missing the forest for the trees. My personal insight from psychedelics was that what I perceived as "reality" was simply wetware converting signals from my senses into perception. When something changes that perception (sometimes dramatically, like patterns on solid objects moving fluidly behind my hands or gazing at shimmering geometric rainbows etched into the walls) one understands that reality is just in your head. IMHO that's a powerful construct, especially for an optimist: it's easier to imagine changing the world when the world is so easily changeable in your head.
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