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One of the things I love about being in CS is that there is much less pressure to go into management consulting or finance--straight out of college, tech companies offer similar stability and pay (perhaps more stability and less pay, but it's close) coupled with very nice working conditions and actual, nontrivial engineering problems.

For me and my EE/CS friends there are three options that come before finance (I don't think anybody even considers management consulting): grad school, FB/Google/MSFT...etc or a start up. I only know one person eager to enter finance, compared to many people interested in, and usually already working towards, either an academic path, a stable programming career or founding their own company.

That said, there is some very serious selection bias in my group of friends, so this is probably not indicative of my university at large. Particularly, almost everybody I know is in some sort of engineering, and the school I'm at is particularly strong in engineering (especially EE/CS). I suspect if I had more friends from the business school I would have a very different picture.
The next paragraphs explains that sentence (daimon, yamaguchi-dumi). 'hishi-gata' wasn't but from a quick google I understand that it means 'diamond-shaped'. I admit that I found it frustrating as well.
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would you mind giving an example of how you would code it so that that 1 request didn't block the rest?

in a browser I'd go with a setTimeout or setInterval hack to "fork" another thread. is this the same in node?
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Except it contains a lot of FUD, like saying that Node has no SSL support.
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This is political FUD at its best.

The extra fat fee is results of a law passed in March, under the old conservative government. It's just coming into effect now starting October 1st. It's not an act by the the newly elected government. That government barely picked its cabinet 24 hours ago. Not even Stalin could manage to create, approve and roll out to all relevant parties a new set of rules within 24 hours.

If you dig into this page, you can see that it passed 102-1, with only the Liberal Alliance voting against: http://www.ft.dk/samling/20101/lovforslag/l111/beh3/16/forha...

So it was a law initiated by the Conservative side and with joint support of both left and right side parties (except the ultra liberal one and the far-left Good Looking Peoples' Party).

Obviously the new government is not going to cancel a law they voted for themselves but this is a conservative-initatied law.

As for new government "gathering money where they can", due to the inclusion of a famously centric party (amusingly called "The Radical Left", not to be confused with the right wing conservative party called "Left" which was part of the previous government) we're looking at a set of financial changes likely to benefit workers - tax on work will be decreased and the far left parties had to drop their ideas of an extra "millionaire tax".

Rather than go through with some weird vague idea of making everyone work 1 hour per week with no extra pay, the government will increase the retirement age as part of financing.
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But, does it webscale?
It is written like an alien studying human interaction. Some of what was written is decent advice but it comes off as off-putting.
There are actually some great posts in there. If you've been around long enough you'll overlook the asshole facade and see that while he often presents the material in a trollish, absolute manner there's wisdom to be found.
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The author's website on structure procrastination:

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If you want a number of examples, contrast how the British treated the American complaints and dissent against them, vs. how Washington and the American leadership treated dissent and rebellion among their ranks.

The Americans executed a number of people who rebelled against the Continental Congress / Washington's Command, whereas the British were lenient. A very thorough treatment of this can be found in Chernow's "Washington - A Life" which is a very thorough biography/history.

You could also look at the Sengoku Era of Japanese history for many examples, you could compare Napoleonic France with the Neapolis Revolts in the same era. You could look at how Rome treated its protectorates and dependencies, as well as Britain (most of the time, America being a strange exception).

Abraham Lincoln's treatment of the Confederacy would be another example. Crush them, then bring them back into the fold.

Or compare the Pacific Theater of WWII vs. the Vietnam War from America's perspective... Japan was better-armed, better-trained, with superior forces than the Vietnamese, and the Americans were worse-equipped and more hastily trained at that point. The Japanese were easily equivalent guerrilla fighters to the Vietnamese. Yet America went total war and crushed the Empire of Japan (then rebuilt Japan intelligently - crushing without rebuilding creates a potential Nazi-Germany-after-Versailles situation)... whereas the American leadership tried some "moral leadership" insanity in Vietnam instead of total war.

Again, I'm not advocating any of these things. This is meant to be more descriptive than prescriptive, but maybe I'm being sloppy with language. But treating Hanoi in the 1960's the way they treated Tokyo in the 1940's would have seems like it would have likely secured a demilitarized and protected South Vietnam from the Northern Forces.

Maybe they couldn't have totally destroyed the communist forces and taken the North, but they absolutely could have fenced off the South and stopped the Khmer Rouge genocides from ever happening (they started the same year America withdrew - this isn't a coincidence). Millions of lives would have been better, more like South Korea than North Korea.

The examples in history of this abound. Leniency and concessions provoke more unrest. Crackdowns without redress eventually lead to the dam bursting. Doing both together tends to resolve the situation most often.
What amuses me is that the prices are all current, so the site is clearly still being updated... maybe they're going for that "Classic Internet" look.
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers" - former IBM president Thomas J. Watson

(it's a misquote, incidentally, but you get the point)
I have some experience of a similar situation, having at one point run a web dev blog at ilovejackdaniels.com, before the JD legal team contacted me ... and I'm on a new domain now.

The problem, as explained to me by a lawyer (I am not a lawyer, so don't go taking this as legal advice, as I'm paraphrasing what I was told), is that legal departments for really big corporations just care about winning. It doesn't really matter whether they are in the right or not. What's going to make it difficult for you is that they have a huge amount of resources that you don't.

It sounds in your case like they have no actual case for cybersquatting or similar. But that doesn't mean they won't sue you. And if you can't afford to be sued, then that's an automatic win for them.

You also need to evaluate what level of stress and trouble you're prepared to go to to protect the domain. It may suck, but there will be a point at which it would be better for your sanity and your health to let them have the domain and get as much as you can out of them for it.

If I were in your shoes (and I was) I would first visit a lawyer. Get some proper advice.
While most danes don't mind high taxes in general, this is one of those taxes that only makes sense on the surface. I think it's fair to say the foundation is shaky at best - extra tax on olive oil and nuts because they are fatty? Really?
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Hi folks,

I wanted to have something that shows me the best deals that are currently available in the Mac and iOS store. By best deals I mean applications that are reduced in price or became totally free. So a friend and I built a Mac App and an iOS app + a web backend for this. We track ever application and as soon its price drops we list it in our apps.

When you click on the link you see the web front-end I built in two days using Cappuccino (cappuccino.org).

I have to say that Cappuccino makes it really easy to build something that behaves like a desktop app. What I don't like is the long time you have to wait when visiting the "site" for the first time - so I think I will rewrite it in SproutCore. What do you think?

Chris
Doesn't kill their creators, at least.
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There is a huge difference between being pragmatic and beaten into submission by industry, and seeing no value in language innovation. I highly doubt the latter is the case for most of these veterans you speak of.
this was my thought as well. but others seem to disagree; my reddit comment to that effect was voted down, and others here seem to have looked up the actual case and think it's legit.

Why would a serious law department make an offer that domain squatters regularly turn down when selling obscure domains to nobodies like me? I tried to buy prgmr.net and prgrmr.com (note the extra 'r') from the squatters that had them; I offered $300 a pop, but they wouldn't budge from three grand. (they can keep 'em if they think they can get three grand of value out of them. What do the economists say? the highest value use? They aren't worth two new servers to me, that's for sure.)

It sounded like a grand or two would have made the guy happy, and it sounds like the company in question has already sunk several times that into legal fees. Are serious companies really that irrational?
I agree with vessenes, the article is vaguely strawman-ish.

What pg says in Python Paradox is not "all Python programmers are elite hackers" but rather that -- when he wrote the article -- the percentage of good hackers in the Pythonista population was higher than in the Java-programmer population.

Again, the point is not that learning Python automatically makes you a better programmer. It's that people who are great programmers or are interested in being better programmers are more likely to go and learn a non-mainstream language.
The fact that they start with offering you money weakens their case considerably. That said, get yourself a really good lawyer if you want to hold on to it and you think you have a strong enough case, be prepared to pay them a lot of money.
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Hiya

Interesting open letter from Dave Scott and Mark Allen, regarding the soon to be published "Ironwar" book.
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I don't like flame fests any more than you do, but honestly is making money always the most important factor? Especially in our profession there are far more rewarding goals than money.
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What is STM? I was following along until that came up.
The fact that your domain doesn't exist anymore is somewhat troubling.
The point is that in a multi-thread architecture, you can still serve requests on the other threads. In a single-process non-blocking IO architecture, blocking CPU calculations will block everyone.

Big deal. Use workers to solve that. End of story.
It's the equivalent of tying a giant boulder to the back of a Ferrari 599 and scoffing at how Ferrari can dare to call it a "high performance" car. Stop trying to drag giant boulders around.
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You will have to do more of it, of course.

In a classic thread-based system, it's okay if a single page takes a bit longer (e.g. >1 sec) to render if it's within your user's line of expectation.

You can't do that here because you'll block all the others.

But any decent developers knows that, so he takes the advantages Node.js offers and fixes the disadvantages that come along with it. Big deal.

Is this discussion really only about the scalability tagline? Some taglines are misleading, really?
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I wish I could dig up the HN story from a few months ago. Basically JS encryption is horribly broken and essentially worthless

Edit: ah, here it is http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2935220
Canada is not more diverse than the USA. My grandparents were Canadian, but there's a real reason why the US is called "the melting pot."
Even I was suffering from headaches for a few months and then I went to the optician and was prescribed to wear glasses.

Am still trying to get used to wearing them. And the first time I wore my glasses everything seemed so much clearer.
TLDR Just scroll to the bottom:

"If you have headaches, especially chronic ones do yourself a favor and have your eyes checked, you might need glasses without realizing it."
I'm going to defer to exarkun on how Twisted does this: http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/web/howto/web-in-... Note that his example doesn't bother to chew CPU, but you could chew CPU if you like, as long as you do it in a thread, and still best Node.
My response to the JP cops that stop me:
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(Sorry... Japanese eat can not...)

And other gibbering in a western accent and they wave me past. I usually get stopped around 2am during my cycling commute home. Makes sense I guess when the last trains have stopped and lots of bicycles get "borrowed".
There are lots of things that can result from bad eye sight.

I didn't get headache from my bad eyesight (around 1/2 dioptrin), but easily got completely tired during work (no matter how much I've sleeped during the night). Since I've got lenses this issue disappeared, no more tiredness at all during the day.
Off-topic: that unscrollable navigation bar at the top of that page is very annoying. Takes up the specific part of my browser I look at when reading articles.
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What constitutes cybersquatting or having the rights to a domain you purchased? When can someone who feels they could better use the domain sue?
That's spot on. Also known to cause headaches:

* Lack of sleep

* Lack of magnesium or iron

* Too much sugar/fat

* Caffeine withdrawal symptom (and the cure isn't more caffeine ;) )

* Bad position (especially in the neck)

* Flu, cold, etc.
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I suggest to try out lenses. At the beginning it's a little bit difficult to put them in or to remove them, but (at least for me) they work much better than glasses.

If you are lucky and the lenses work well for you, you won't even notice that you have them inside (except for the fact that your vision is much better).
I'm from the Philadelphia area, so I head to Philadelphia tech meet ups and more so hackathons lately now that I'm working and want to keep churning out side projects while meeting awesome people who, broadly put, like hacking. You still need to search out for the "interesting, like minded people", but I find they're worth it.
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If you are tired and your eyes are ok, you might want to check for allergies (at least mine didn't have any effects on throat/nose, so it might not be obvious). Or bacteria infection (teeth, etc).
Even if you're not "crazy enough" to do what's prescribed, every user routed to the locked node instance will still be locked. You're just reducing the surface area of the freeze.
There is actually a combined Math/Verbal/Writing score totaling a maximum of 2400. There is a separate score for the essay of the writing part, but it is factored into the final writing score out of 800.
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> Flew

You mean "Flu", which is actually short for "influenza," and contrary to most people's belief is not simply a bad cold, but can be a life-threatening condition.

(Pet peeve - sorry - bad personal experience)
I used to have very bad headaches when working and found out that it was due to a bad position of my neck. I've since changed my office chair, made sure that the screen is positioned so that I don't look down and the headaches have disappeared...
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> I have some experience of a similar situation, having at one point run a web dev blog at ilovejackdaniels.com

it was awesome. Is that why the site died?
How so?

Canadian investors have traditionally been extremely risk-averse, and the country has needed this kind of VC activity for years now. Maybe something like this will go towards bringing back some of the legions of Canadian expats (like myself) who are currently in the US because the state of the software industry in Canada is, in a word, pathetic.
I've found that my local Perl Mongers was a great place to meet like minded people - http://www.pm.org/ for your closest one :)
The only problem I see with lenses is the constant cleaning and the extra care that they require.
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Yes exactly, fixed that. I got a flu two years ago, indeed it's more than a simple cold but there's nothing a young adult cannot handle.
Great comment. Now, there are so many startup events in my city than never before but every time I struggle to go there. The key of meeting people is simple: you hope that you see/find somebody doing something which inspires you and brings new stuff to life. That's the pattern about how we try and learn new things (like children): you see somebody doing something and you say to yourself, hey I can do this too.

But back to your comment:
If I stay home and dive into a new topic it's always 100% more productive. I remember those days when I was learning Ruby at a Saturday night when my friends were heading to the same clubs they visited every weekend and I knew that they are wasting their time (usually you feel the opposite when a bunch of people you know meet/go out).
But the problem is that you usually need a trigger to get productive and just from surfing the web and reading Hacker News it's hard to get this trigger -- don't ask me why but getting active from just reading a blog post doesn't work (maybe there're just too many of them.)
So, at the end you need to have a good ratio of being productive and just being active/busy/meeting people.

A last thought: if I think back to all encounters on such startup events most stay superficial and lead nowhere. I got the most inspiration out of long-term relationships (coworkers).
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I am not the author of the article, just the submitter. However, I'll run with your comment anyway...

Tensile Modulus (aka Young's Modulus) is a measure of how stiff a material is. Specifically, it's a measure of how much a material stretches under load. (Diamond has a very high tensile modulus while rubber has a very low tensile modulus.)

Ten years ago, people were 3D printing in plastics with a tensile modulus of under 1,000 MPa and they were happy with that. Today you can print in DSM Somos NanoTool which has a tensile modulus of 11,400 MPa. Keep in mind this is a plastic. ( Source: http://www.dsm.com/en_US/downloads/dsms/NanoTooleng_10.09.pd... )

If you need even stronger materials then you should consider using an SLS (selective laser sintering) printer that can build products in titanium, aluminum or steel. Imagine how many ants could safely walk across a bridge 3D printed in any of these!
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Don't forget about people learning these languages—they sometimes are even more concerned about vertical writing than natives, AFAICT =)

(OT: Nice clean personal website you have there.)
Here's the thing about headaches though - what triggers it for one person is not always the same for another.

The motivation to share advice is admirable but it's just as mistaken as similar "this is the path to my success, you should do it too because it should work for everyone".
I think the case can be made more easily for government involvement in education than in almost any other area of life. Purely because in a certain small % of cases, parents simply won't take any steps to see their children educated. That isn't a choice the child is making. Whether that means that the government should also run the schools themselves is of course a separate question.

Some of the world's best school systems are highly decentralised and some are highly centralised.
It's under 450 words which, for an average native English speaker, will take about a minute and a half to read without skimming to find the important bits. It's rather disappointing if something so short needs to be summarized.
This could put IKEA out of business.

I wonder how long it'll be until companies start suing.
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Contact lenses are good for certain issues with eyes, but not others -- at least around here, they're worn a lot more by short-sighted people than long-sighted people, and the article is definitely describing someone who's long-sighted.

The problem is that if you need to correct your vision for close-up work, a lens that corrects sufficiently may not be suitable for general purpose vision. In this case, you need to use glasses as you'll need to take them off when you get up from your computer, or you'll need bi- or vari-focals.
That may constitute a bad faith attempt to profit from the domain from the trademark holder, and may cost him the domain.
With my left eye, I can't focus on objects closer than 12 inch.

With my right eye, I can't focus on objects further than 26 inch.

I have glasses to correct this, but without glasses I can comfortably use a computer at a 'sweet spot' distance of 18 inch ;-)

Any closer and my left eye image begins to become blurred. Lately I've done a lot of fine soldering work, and then it becomes really obvious. I think I need reading glasses, too.
> Caffeine withdrawal symptom (and the cure isn't more caffeine ;) )

I don't know about that, actually. Caffeine is the active ingredient in (low-power, over-the-counter) migraine medication, because it has anti-inflammatory properties. People who have chronic headaches may be unintentionally self-medicating with caffeine; for them, the caffeine withdrawal period becomes concurrent with their regular headaches returning.

More anecdotally, when I don't drink caffeine (and I do go off it for months at a time), I get headaches on and off, about once per week or so. When I do drink caffeine, though, I literally never get headaches.
Ah, the "I don't need glasses, it is only that my arm is too short" effect. That's a well known ageing process. The lens of the eye is an elastic body that bounces back to a more spherical form if you focus on something in the near, but over the years the material becomes less and less elastic, so the nearest point you can focus on moves further and further away. (That is on reason why small children trying to show you something hold it right in front of your nose: for them it is the distance where they can see small things best.)