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You can read Jordan Mechner's journal from the time that he was developing the original Prince of Persia.
It's one of the most fascinating devlogs/creation sagas I'e ever read:
http://jordanmechner.com/old-journals/page/11/
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I agree, though I'm currently saving some money because I expect the markets to go back down to 2008 lows. I'll buy then. Companies like Coca Cola and Shell are as good as ever, but will be much cheaper then.

Have people decided they no longer need housing?

That may not be an entirely valid comparison, because it seems simply too many houses have been built.
Most people think company culture is important in the same way they think life is fragile. Everybody agrees and people rarely act accordingly.
Maybe people should start condensing the 'Metro Detroit Area' as the MDA (or something like that) similar to the way the 'Greater Toronto Area' is labeled the GTA.
The list doesn't seem exhaustive. For example, where am I? :)
Woot, looks like i'm reading an explanation of how i code since more than two years!
So many people screams against goto, even more when goto is "hidden" in a macro. But when you read some code with a function call followed by a simple "GOTO_IFERR()" which check if an error occurred, trace the error properly and then goes to a specific part for each function where cleanup will be handled everythings seems really cleaner for me
I saw my first Unix prompt two years ago, nested inside of this editor called "Emacs." In my 23 years I had only programmed conditionals in Excel, and now I was responsible for using this system to maintain some of the most important econometric models in the world.

Fast forward to present day, where I'm writing linear classifiers in a Lisp dialect I had never seen before this weekend. I've previously built scrapers in Python, a website with Django, side projects with a bunch of technologies (R, JS, SQL, Redis, MongoDB, etc. etc.). I enjoyed working on all of these enough to start a graduate program in CS.

People start writing, running, painting, and working on other awesome trades at all ages. Coding shouldn't be any different. Click on pg's link to Codecademy, go check out MIT's introductory CS courses on OpenCourseware, and don't worry about how old you are!
You can just configure your editor to figure out when \x y -> x + y is equal to λx y→x+y and replace the symbols as appropriate.

I have Emacs set up to do this for Haskell, so I really have the best of both worlds (mostly): I can type the former expression but it looks like that latter.
I don't believe much in this. I think a large percentage age discrimination in engineering is well-deserved. There's so many people at any large engineering firm who at some point just start doing the same thing over and over again for 20+ years, protecting their little knowledge island, resisting new ideas and approaches. If these people lose their job and enter the job market, yes they are discriminated against. I call this "lack of skills and interest discrimination". I believe that in most working economies, this is allowed.

Of course, as with anything, there's exceptions, but I'm convinced that if you keep investing in your own knowledge, keep exploring and learning, and keep figuring out what it is that you'd like to do most, you can avoid age discrimination pretty well. The few 60+ year old co-workers I have confirm this. The large amount of aged Software Superheros out there confirms this.
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Who is the --AA of the publishing industry, obviously they have far few legal protections for their schemes.
did you restart your terminal session? I believe that's the next step. did you make sure your bashrc wasn't returning before that bit was executed?
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Thanks! Glad you like it. As you probably know, there's already a Rails Tutorial chapter (and screencast) on Rails 3.1, but I'm also working on a full 3.1 update as well. Look for the new book in November or December, with the screencasts to follow a couple of months later. Sign up for the news feed for the latest updates: http://feeds.feedburner.com/railstutorial
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The one thing I'd add is The amount of revenue generated by the Top 10% of income earners. Using the household budget model it would be $6,835. (individual income tax is about 45% of federal revenue and the top 10% pay 70% of that). Too many people think we can solve all our problems with a modest increase on "the rich" when the truth is our hole is much deeper than that

(the top 10% is anyone over $113,000 which is why I put "the rich" in quotes)
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I just want to know why people there like to copy?
How can they change the situation?
It is more an equity investment in the book product than a payday loan, as there is no obligation to repay if sales are bad. Or you can regard it as the publisher creating a limited liability company for each book that pays the author. It is much like VC financing for a product company in terms of the model, although the payoffs are usually distributed a little differently.
>as there is no fundamental difference between memory >mappings, file handles, database connections,
>or minimum-wage bicycle messengers

The number of programs you can write without file handles, database connections or minimum-wage bicycle messengers is dwarfed by the number of programs that are extremely painful to write without dynamic memory allocation. We can argue all day about how 'fundamental' the difference is but there is a profound practical difference well-recognized in the decades of work that's gone into memory GC. 'It's ok/actually awesome that Obj-C kind of blows at memory management because other languages kind of blow at universal resource management' is a pretty specious argument.
I don't agree with that. Much of our debt comes from bonds which need to be repaid in a few years. So we're constantly having to reborrow on our debt much like someone jumping from credit card to credit card.

If anything the current debt is like the credit card and the unfunded liabilities are the mortgage.
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Easy solution...

Perhaps the founders from Ann Arbor could simply have their names removed from the list of startups grown in Detroit.

They could find another method for myself, or anyone else on HN who is not from SE Michigan to discover information about them.

A list of startups grown in Ann Arbor would be of equivalent interest to everyone here. Or anywhere else for that matter.

Oh wait...
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And even if you haven't, you can learn how to read it in ten minutes. Say what you want about Obj-C, but I think its readability is really outstanding.
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I dont belive that bashrc is being executed on a mac as standard. Try:

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If that worked add this to your .bash_profile

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People seem to think puppet and chef are some sort of revolution, as if we didn't automate all this stuff before with bash, rsync, kickstart and cfengine.
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And the values and keys are still backwards.
I don't know how many people outside of Toronto (or Canada) know what GTA means. (I know that I didn't). Abbreviations that make sense locally rarely resonate globally.
Here's ESR's comment on why Unity is unproductive - http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=3822

Its more or less what Linus independently talked about.

Anyway you look at it - the terminal icon behavior is pretty asinine (IMHO - OSX doesnt do it that way). My productivity goes down drastically on Unity.

Instead I can use synapse, gnome-dock, etc. and get the same "shiny" without losing productivity.
Depends on the size and activity of the business.

Maybe there is no need for a 100% time sysadmin, maybe there is need for 30 sysadmins across different time zones.

But that's not now, that has been always like that.

http://poisonbit.wordpress.com/2011/02/18/opensource-clouds-...
If I were you, I would:

- drop out (be prepared to get a non programming job)
- start working on open source projects (follow aa_memon's advice and get a github account)
- build/release two or three projects on your own
- start trying to transition to a more fulfilling programming job

Most importantly, don't burn any bridges and keep your options open (ie - don't incur extreme amounts of debt). After a year or two away, you might decide to return to University!

Best of luck :)
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Quick tip: A Rails IDE like RubyMine (paid) or RadRails (free) is well worth the money if you are just starting out.
But those debt payments can be further financed, so it could be seen as more like a revolving credit line.
Probably that you can get stuff done simply, without writing a lot of boilerplate code.
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"Things like factories, adapters, and other design patterns are all thankfully not there."

Not sure I understand this? How does Obj-c enable the developer to avoid factories?
> Suddenly sharecropping is broadened to writing an application on someone else's Operating System!

Yes, because operating systems have been written that make you a true sharecropper - not only you do need permission from the liege to distribute your app, but the permission can be revoked at any time, whenever your lord feels like it.

This was not the case with the proprietary systems of the past. Even Microsoft, being criticized as the evilest of evil did not try to stop you from distributing your Windows apps.
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One problem with this chart is that it presents a snapshot in time and so you can't see how the various portions of the budget have changed.

So here is Jared Bernstein( * ), former member of President Obama's economic team explaining how the "Family Budget Not Equal to Government Budget" (http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/family-budget-not-equal-to-gov...)

Heading into work the other day, I heard a Congresswoman on the radio using a common argument that always sticks in my craw—or it would if I knew what a ‘craw’ was.

Here’s the gist: “The federal budget is just like a family budget, and we in government must tight our belts and live within our means just like families do.”

There are similarities which I’ll note below, but it’s almost always used as an argument for cutting everything to the bone right away, and in that sense it’s wrong.

First of all, it’s bass-akwards: when families are tightening their belts, the federal government is the one institution that can actually help the economy—and these belt-tightening families—by loosening its belt and running a deficit.

That deficit should be temporary and should come down when the private economy climbs up off the mat—which again tweaks the analogy: when families start to loosen, gov’t should eventually start to tighten (“eventually” because these transitions can be fragile and if gov’t tightens too soon, it can reverse the early gains–see UK).

But there’s another fundamental way in which this family budget analogy gets misused. Families borrow to make investments and to get over rough patches. They run deficits too. I went into pretty deep debt to finance college and grad school and I’m glad I did.

The whole credit system is based on the fact that if we had to pay cash-as-we-go for everything, we’d seriously underinvest. And that’s true for families and governments—and yes, you can overdo the borrowing thing. But to flip too far the other way is equally dangerous.

So, while it sounds good and has some merit, I’d use the “gov’t budget=family budget” argument with care and I’d discount those who want to use it as a hammer to insist on instant cuts.

( * ) Jared Bernstein joined the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in May 2011 as a Senior Fellow. From 2009 to 2011, Bernstein was the Chief Economist and Economic Adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, executive director of the White House Task Force on the Middle Class, and a member of President Obama’s economic team.

Bernstein’s areas of expertise include federal and state economic and fiscal policies, income inequality and mobility, trends in employment and earnings, international comparisons, and the analysis of financial and housing markets.

Prior to joining the Obama administration, Bernstein was a senior economist and the director of the Living Standards Program at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.

Between 1995 and 1996, he held the post of deputy chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor.
I agree with hluska. Get involved and start some projects. One of them might turn into a real job :)
From what I've heard the earlier version didn't have the same level of integration with other apps
Very innovative idea. There is probably a law against writing/printing on money in the U.S., though.
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Nice guide, I wish I had it when I first started rails. However, vim? I love vim, and suggest everyone learns it. But if the point of a guide is to teach the basic installation of ROR, I wouldn't suggest making them open vim, too.
If I was your customer, the fact you're trying to get systemtap running on ubuntu rather than RHEL or a derivative would concern me.

Someone should really write an article on using dtrace on a BSD where it's patchable, but not officially supported, and call it 'using dtrace'. The article is very transparent FUD.
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It's sad to think that the organizers of this will probably be arrested for "conspiracy to deface government property" or something.

Or, since they're also advancing a political message of 'fear', maybe it will be terrorism?
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It seems to require "intent" to run afoul of the defacing statutes, and that you did it to prevent the bill from being reissued:

http://www.moneyfactory.gov/historicallegislation.html
_There is probably a law against writing/printing on money in the U.S., though._

There is, mostly. It's illegal to "mutilate" money. A reasonable interpretation could include these infographics, especially if they're not removable.

On the other hand, playing the first amendment card isn't even a stretch on this one. So really, it depends more on the creativity of the lawyers (and the political leanings of the judge) than anything else.
And in ~20 years those mortgages will be paid off, and he'll be making rental income off of the house.
The 1% are hardly representative of the true 'ruling elite'. This group is probably around a few hundred people, no more than a few thousand. Wall Street is also not the center of power, but rather Washington DC and the Federal Reserve.
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Early retirement has a totally different meaning than retiring at an old age. At old age, you think of covering your medical expenses, sufficient enough money to take of your needs for food,clothing and shelter till your very soon to happen biological death. Besides you don't really have the energy and enthusiasm to enjoy the same things somebody young does.

At an younger age retirement has a different meaning. It means traveling, riding your motor cycle in rallies to far off places. Roaming around the country trying out different sort of food, Playing video games and your favorite instrument during Sunday afternoons.

In order to do all this you need a supply of money that isn't mediocre by measure. In this case, even if you have $900K (I don't know if this is sufficient in the US, I'm from India) that may not be sufficient to live a life of even mediocre decent luxury.

If the idea is to live hand to mouth the rest of ones life, then retiring with $900K at 35 isn't bad idea. Other wise,... One has no option but to get back to work.
A couple things here...

1. The argument is used to create a mental model of the situation. Some might use that model to make an argument for cutting but that doesn't mean their argument is inherent in the model and as such it doesn't invalidate the model.

2. Families also can spend money that, in theory, can help their personal economy. Education, moving to an area with better jobs, etc... So the argument isn't "bass-akwards" as the site contends.
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"Votes for Women" movement in 1903 used to deface the penny to spread the word.

Suffragette-defaced penny : http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/iVUVhaKVREWj...
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Can someone brief me on what Occupy Wall Street is trying to do? I can't quite figure it out.

If they're mad about being unemployed, marching sure isn't going to fix their situation. If they're mad about government corruption, what exactly would they like done? If they're mad about the economy in general, isn't Wall Street the worst place to be protesting? I feel like the traders on Wall Street would be the first people to want an economic bounce back. Do they just hate rich people? Hmm.

I've held back on criticizing this movement, but after all this time, I still can't figure out exactly what they want. It's seeming more and more to me, as just a way to waste peoples' times, and our tax dollars.
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I would love to see a reference for the "profound practical difference well-recognized in the decades of work that's gone into memory GC".

Many languages, including Objective-C (although, arguably/mostly Foundation), manage to provide primitives that make it easy to manage either at once; the only high-level complexity you have to give up is cycle detection, which is a serious problem and "known tradeoff" in many fields, including deadlock detection (hence, why I mention an interesting connection to things like CAP).

Also, I would also love to see a reasonable program that does not have external resources: I find that almost all the work my programs are doing are managing and moving around external resources... from threads to sockets to money, you are probably not doing anything terribly useful unless you are dealing with a non-memory resource.

Regardless, the goal of these statements is "a defense of Objective-C", not "why Objective-C is amazing": the "defense of Java", when you show someone a four-level nested try/finally whose sole purpose is to make non-deterministic finalization of File objects exception-safe, is "but we have garbage collection, which has these nifty properties, including automatic cycle detection".
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True. Anyone knows that if there's farmland in-between, startups can't be on a list together.
Woha, -3 without a comment. Amazon for sure will add complete self service. Not sure what other HNers think, but for me there is a difference between a service plattform and a middle man.

E.g. take real estate websites. They are not a middleman, they are not a real estate agent. There is a significant difference between a plattform and middlemen. Real estate websites did not add a new middleman when replacing real estate agents.

This is enforced by Amazon emphasizing that there are only authors and readers.
They are sick about low taxes for the rich and the inequitable distribution of wealth...

But being honest there is nothing they can do about those two.
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I would guess they are searching for a more egalitarian society, looking at the specific images they but on the bills.
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The average maturity of US debt is 5+ years. And, can be rolled over -- at worst, rolled over at historically prevailing interest rates.

Off balance sheet liabilities are more of a concern than the official debt. The declining ability of the US to repay debt is a major concern (due to declining competitiveness). The actual level of official debt right now isn't itself a huge concern.
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