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> Java programmers who already switched to high level language on top of jvm (Scala, clojure, etc.) ... Java programmers who refuse, for various reasons, to learn newer languages/tools

that's still a fairly risky approach. these new tools are, well, new. Reminds me of this quote: "One founder wanted to negotiate out of having to pay $10K in lawyer fees. Said just because it was always done that way doesn’t mean we had to do it that way this time. Turns out that person wanted to rewrite the book of convention on every decision he made. I can’t tell you that’s why his company failed but it sure didn’t help."[1]

Lots of people have shipped multi-million dollar systems in Java. Not so many people have done it in clojure. Tone check: my next job will probably be in scala or clojure, its just not necessarily the answer to everything. See my comment above in this thread where I quote two scala evangelists talking about how scala's future is uncertain.[2]

[1] http://permanentrecord.firstround.com/2011/10/31/term-sheet-negotiation-tells/
[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3198120
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I'm so glad I've never had a client like that here in Australia. Everyone seems to be OK with the idea of running multiple browsers. We do have clients that use IE6 but we've always managed to convince them to install Chrome or Firefox on their desktops so they can use our software. Some users end up using multiple browsers but that's ok.

I guess we're fortunate in the sense that our software is important enough and expensive enough for top management to make IT allow a new browser just for us.

At the UK NHS, who exactly is the CIO, who exactly is mandating IE6 and only IE6? Can't that person be reasoned with? Overridden for the good of the NSH? Fired even? Just saying 'oh they're only allowed IE6' is giving up too early.
Note the word "typically". It is likely Apple got a volume discount if they're buying in those quantities, and especially if they're paying up-front to cover the R&D for the modifications they needed.
When I write Emacs Lisp, Emacs will automatically turn my "lambda" into λ . I have mixed feelings about it, but it's certainly more concise.
I prefer we base our standard on what the economic benefit and damage there are to using a patent system, not on what constitute obvious and non-obvious.

If there are huge economic impact that are for the worse as a result of patenting non-obvious solution, than we should scrap the system altogether.
I didn't insinuate anything. I asked specific questions.

Is Wikileaks "a small company with a dozen or so employees"? Or is it for the most part one person? (That's a new question).

The "affiliation" questions matters because if people who draw a salary from Wikileaks are also getting paid piecework rates for production &c, they're subtly getting paid more than those numbers indicate.

Lawyers are expensive. Are they charging Wikileaks for Assange's personal sexual assault and concomitant extradition fight? Or is that not part of that number? (That's a repeated question).

These aren't questions that are any tougher than the ones Diaspora faced. They're not political. Someone said Wikileaks seemed expensive for what they do. Well, are they?
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Wait.. so it is now permanently on Daylight Savings time? (e.g. sun at highest point at ~ 1pm every day?)
I can't recall seeing anyone looking for a hire with a "large community following."

companies are most usually looking for ... team working skills

I believe there is an operating assumption here that active membership and following in a given community is a solid indicator that the individual in question has very good team interaction skills, as well as working knowledge of the community's domain focus.
I'm not entirely sure it's even trying. I don't have a mac but that page has playing music as the forth bullet point. I think this is supposed to be a program for managing Winamp Android, at least for now.
Developers who lack skill are awful at picking technologies. I like to think of it like this: when the guys that don't know anything start picking the tools they are basically throwing darts at a board. Everything is going to seem random. Sure, some of their picks will be correct, but most are going to be awful selections that make maintaining the project a very unpleasant experience.
But Anonymous got what they wanted. They said release the guy or we release the names. And the guy got released.
Sooooo tiny on an iPad. Looks like a postage stamp when it first comes up. You have to zoom-in to do anything.
I like it! The fixed-width column format ( http://canv.as uses it too) works really well for small chunks of random content.
I would say that once you reach a certain level you are able to determine which technology is reasonable based on things like language familiarity, community support, and documentation.
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conceptually very difficult to grasp

I walked out of university with a degree in engineering (CS), conversational fluency in Japanese, and a degree in cultural studies. When I think of moments of difficulty during my education, "Women can be black and blacks can be women, too, which complicates things, because the experience of black women is not the same as the experience of black men or white women. This is ignored by a lot of writing about the experience of being 'black' or being 'women.' That is bad." is not one of them. (This is the thirty-second version of Intersectionality.)
There is nothing wrong with optional semi-colons. In most cases, the parser doesn't need them, and the programmer doesn't want to type them. But they're useful in some cases for disambiguation, especially in a language like Xtend that doesn't use an explicit return. E.g.

foo("bar") ;
(a + b)

The semicolon is necessary for disambiguation in a case like this, but there is no reason to require the programmer to put in semicolons everywhere. I think the operator precedence hierarchy and optional parens to override it is way more complicated, but people seem to deal with it fine.
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So can anyone tell me why a galaxy is considered to be anything more than a large (and 3-dimensional) black-hole accretion disk?
Who the hell is responsible for much of the DST insanity?

I think most people on hacker news would agree DST is insanity.
How exactly can you tell exact controllers/actions in the code? Do we need to include some custom code in our PHP (in this case) code for that to work? We use NewRelic right now, and all that the "code performance" part of it shows is index.php, which is the dispatcher of our framework. Obviously, not very helpful.

P.S. I posted a related question on Quora recently, maybe you'd like to weight in: http://www.quora.com/How-is-Tracelytics-better-than-New-Reli...
Straight from the European Space Agency, cutting out the physorg blogspam: http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1116/ (press release), http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/heic1116a/ (video), http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/releases/scien... (paper).

PhysOrg: just say no.
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Article is misleading based on units. Food is in kCal, but the calories being calculated for temperature are just normal cals. Enjoy burning 6 calories from your 1200 calorie desert.
I definitely prefer the light later in the evenings (DST), I'd just like it to stay that way year-round. (i.e. let's stop the madness, but it would be a pity if we stuck with Standard Time year-round, we should stick with DST year-round).
Sure, but I wonder if two years in Ruby, or any language, is enough?

A superstar dev might go out and try a lot of the new, cool stuff, even when it is needed. But it seems that that developer would also have a grasp of the common characteristics of bad technology.

So I think there are at a minimum two good traits of a great developer. The rockstar-like quality of having the skill, curiosity, and breadth of knowledge to handle being on the edge. And the maturity and thoughtfulness to know whey he/she has failed in the past.
Their advertising costs are low too, wedding related keywords are more expensive than $0.17 and even on Facebook. A lot of retailers have got savy to the fact Facebook lets you target people who are engaged.

I'm not sure the figures add up.
Well, its bit harder at these stages since you lack the basics. I would personally invest a bit of time into learning HTML/CSS, and playing around in Photoshop.

If you choose to buy a design, you have MonsterTemplates or ThemeForest, but you'll have no idea on how to customize them without some HTML/CSS knowledge.

For hosting, there tons of paid options, I would try using free hosting for now and learning a bit about using an FTP program to upload your data.

Really, unless you have huge skills or opportunity elsewhere, you're starting at the basics of web development which leaves you in no position to try and start a web-based business. After you learn a bit more, maybe then you can decide whether or not you want to keep learning development or if you'd rather hire / recruit a developer.
It's not so surprising.

You remove one of the major pain points of developing your own language (platform/libraries), thus reducing the costs of writing your own language, which shifts the industry to a point where there are more languages.
That's intentional. Couldn't help but notice that "/jokes/" appears in the URL.
I really want to find a way to refute this number, but I can't. The only mitigating factor I've found is that it appears to include people's crazy expensive engagement rings.

(Obviously, I'm biased because of how me & Erin got married).
China has a single time zone, Beijing time

http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/astronomical-applications/astr...
That was what I was saying, yes. I don't intend offense.
Mr. Gates has become what Mr. Jobs wanted to become. After seeing Gates' UWash talk I am sure that the brand of philanthropy he is practicing is extremely mathematical, very involved and most certainly not the type that one eases into.

And what a resume Mr. Gates has - Personal Computing, conquering the enterprise and now polio + malaria. Man's in God Mode.
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The difference is that we won't have an Emacs/Vim plugin for years and years after it's initial release. Plus, it's not a dynamically typed language and not Scala
IMHO, it's less readable, and more ambiguous. Is it a variable or a function? Who knows!
I don't know about energy savings, but I know DST has cost plenty in developer time, including mine. :)
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The nicest thing you can say about Daylight Savings these days is that it's a national way to coordinate seasonal schedule changes: not for environmental/energy reasons (the numbers don't support it) but to place additional daylight where people are using it (the evenings after work).

If people like Daylight Savings Time better than not, the real solution should just be to change normal work hours from "9 to 5" to "8 to 4". But that would be difficult to pull off as a culture without guidance, and the idea makes way too much sense for Congress to pull off. So we'll muddle along. At least we have the technology now that work schedules are likely going to be more flexible in the future, instead of less flexible.

If you ask me, though, we should just declare Daylight Savings permanent, then add another layer on top of it every year, until the entire country is using GMT. :)
Well, if Hitler was alive today, and he started doing charity, people would still hate him. Obviously BG is not Adolf, but is a on purpose exaggerated example. He did so much damage on the beginning.
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I don't know if it's slower or not. It takes a certain amount of time to develop a functional spec; you have a head start if you have a working example in front of you.

I think the main reason you don't see more clean-room reimplementations is simply, as you say, that level of compatibility is rarely necessary -- indeed, it's often considered undesirable, even by the users.
+1 Standard time makes me bummed out.
The article is a good example of a false dichotomy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
This article is totally true, but almost impossible to act on.

It's very very hard to differentiate people who have a passion for doing good work and people who just like to play with the latest trendy technology. Especially since the latter is often just an immature stage of the former.
Oh, that's just elementary analysis. That's still "calculus" of course, but in most colleges you might not be expected to take that unless you were a math major. I can respect that.

(Note: I studied math as well as chemistry and CS at a state college so my background is a little unusual.)
I hope you never have to care about this, but Zulu is synonymous with GMT, not UTC. UTC includes leap seconds, whereas GMT does not.

There also used to be differences with some measurements of GMT starting the numbering at noon instead of midnight (madness!)

I am the creator and maintainer of http://the.endoftimezones.com and an amateur time historian.
When I do my first interview (as the interviewer) one day, I'm going to ask "Do you read blogs by software developers?" and if they answer "Yes", I will not hire them because these blogs are a bunch of horse shit.
Do these discount dresses come with the same rw social experience that tends to accompany bridal shopping? Glasses of champagne at (multiple) fittings, long lunches afterwards? Even where a bride doesn't have the budget for a designer dress, this experience can be replicated with off-the-peg versions.

I know that lots of rw shopping experiences have translated very well online, but this one is so social (indeed it is pretty much a rite of passage) that I imagine it is going to be challenging to replicate online.

Also, forgive my stupidity, but $90k of product 'moved' (sold?) / 2803 = $32 means not just dresses and if so, is the name totally appropriate? Plus with weddings taking 12 months+ to arrange, what is the rush...
On the new switch statement:

> Type guards let you switch (or match) for types, which is much nicer and less errorprone than the usual lengthy instanceof-cascades we write in Java.

Ruby can do this too, but it never seemed like a really good idea where I've seen it. The new switch() is better (equals!!), but this particular use case seems so out of place in an OO language like Java.

Using «» for interpolation is also a big jump when Eclipse still defaults to MacRoman. (Or have they changed it recently?)
Umm, the advantage if fusion is how much radiation is being produced from the waste products over time not how much radiation is being produces while it's running. All nuclear reactions be they fission or fusion release their energy as radiation either high energy photons or chunks of matter being blown from the nucleus at high energy levels. So, I really don't think the details of what was actually said are being summarized vary well.

EX: D+T fusion = 2 protons + 3 neutrons one of which does not get to stick around and 17.59 MeV worth of energy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Deuterium-tritium_fusion.s... (The diffrence in energy comes from the conservation of momentum. ~1/4th the mass needs to go ~4x as fast to have the same momentum which takes ~4x the energy {e=v^2 x m=(4)^2 x (1/4)=4}.)
Yes , this is a strange phenomenon. People are often more interested in what works on their computers or those of friends,family than they are than looking at it in terms of supporting % of potential customers.

You can bet your ass that if your client suddenly decided to start using lynx exclusively for his browsing that he would suddenly become very stressed that his flash intro doesn't work :)

Reminds me of doing tech support for a web hosting company a few years ago.

Customer: "Our Website is down!"
Me: "Ok let me check.... Seems like it is up too me.."
Customer: "No it's definately down!"

It then transpires that their internet connection is not working at all and that they already knew this to be the case.

They were still concerned about how embarassing for them it was that their website was down because they had just handed out new business cards with the new URL on them.

And people think that us techies are the borderline autistic ones..
Right now this seems to be depressingly sparse, for any music player. If this could get some of the old 2.x basic winamp functionality (shuffle/repeat, support OLD SCHOOL SKINS, and, most importantly, be able to queue up files(my biggest biggest biggest pet peeve against iTunes)) I would ecstatic.
I'm gonna be honest, ever since leaving windows, I was able to say, half joking, but being completely serious, that the biggest thing I missed about windows was winamp (yeah, I"m an old school hold out, but it worked soooo good, and my skin looked sooooo good, and it didnt take up too much space). This player doesn't do it for me, but it shows there is potential. I hope.
These kinds of people tend to choose whatever seems popular right now. If they happen to be managers then they will read Gartner reports and report on their contents as if Moses himself had presented them with edicts carved into stone tablets.
My favorite features du jour are missing, generics on value types and structs.
No, no, no. Our fancy, schmancy IDEs can produce the code for us, but we still have to read the Java boilerplate.
Didn't know the details of the accusations against him. So he admitted to what you describe?
People who like light in the evenings during the summer. Especially when one lives far East in a timezone. Though personally I'd be perfectly happy with New England having say, double Daylight-Savings year round. As a compromise, move to Atlantic Time.
MrDunham, I appreciate the advice. While 3 years ago I wouldn't backlash at TC users, I feel like times have changed.
Granted Im not the target market, but Implicit returns do not seem like a good idea.
It may be intentional but the math is solid so it is worth pointing out. If you aren't aware that 1 food Calorie is actually 1000 calories then it is quite confusing.

While the temperature normalization process my actually take 6,216 calories "from fat", the "latent" calories in the ice cream isn't 1200 of those same unit calories. It's 1.2 million of them. So your net isn't a 5000 calorie reduction - it's a ~1.19 million gain.
I'm sure they are going to be going local and adding services soon. That way they can get at the whole 28k. Probably expand to babies and home to keep the customer after the wedding too...
Making the parenthesis optional makes it harder to differentiate between taking a method reference and the return value.
1. It is paint, so it will go over the texture. You shouldn't have to worry about bumps showing through as long as you paint it on right.

2. It's easier to clean because of how we made it. I really can't say much beyond that it just works, where others do not.

3. The good part about whiteypaint is if you do hate it, the wall is still the same color. nothing has changed other than it will be a little shinier.

Hope that helps.
I was rather annoyed this last week at trying to schedule meetings with people in Europe who have a DST that started a week before ours did in the US.
To be totally honest, I really wonder how long it took to create this and whether it was really a good use of their time. It is beautiful, full stop. But it also appears as if it took a ton of time to create and put all the bells and whistles in, which would make me at the very least question their judgement of how they spend their time.
Because there's like 3 dudes (maybe a half a dude if you think full-time) that are working on Mirah.

Mirah is cool, but from what I've seen Charlie still has to work on JRuby fulltime and there's no IDE support.

Jetbrains has pull, and I believe Kotlin will be the language that knocks Java down finally.
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SolutionsMB paint cannot erase the product without using spray. I've used it.
Scala has a time to market and a perception problem. Look for Kotlin to be the Scala that Scala never will be.
While it bothers me that it's Yet Another JVM Language when we have too many anyway, this is exactly what I want from a "blub" language. It adds the syntactic sugar that I care about, but since it compiles to java rather than the JVM, I can actually debug it, and stack traces make sense. It has IDE support.

In my personal projects, I love playing with the newest technology. However, when I'm in the enterprise, the point of the language is to communicate effectively to another programmer the intention of the code, because that code will outlive my time at the company. This looks perfect for that purpose.
I think the joke itself is the theory presented, not the fact that the author has no clue what so ever about energy in food being counted in thousands of calories. This is a very common misconception in the USA, where they insist on using the notion of Calories (note the capitalization), confusing them with calories, instead of going metric like the rest of the world by saying kcal to avoid being one thousand times off.
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1 word. Erasability.
Here's a reason: He poisoned the world.

When Microsoft had control of the world's technology they had a choice. They could backtrack and use their enormous money reserves and 90% or more profit margins to make their products stable and reliable or they could stay the course. They chose to stay the course.

As a result people were forced to use systems that really didn't work. Yes Windows 7 crashes less than Windows 3.11 but if Microsoft had adequately tested Windows 3.11 it wouldn't have crashed so much and Windows 7 wouldn't crash at all. Think about it. How much more stable would Windows be if Microsoft had made a still respectable 20% profit rather than 90%?

People cite Apple's hardware/software coupling as a reason for its stability but let me ask you this: How many malware/virus outbreaks were brought on by Hardware flaws in the PC?

Now you have 2 generations that have grown accustomed to crap. People who shrug off their DVR locking up or their phone crashing because they're used to it. Technology has come to mean unreliable. Much of Apple's popularity has been based around the idea that Apple products "Just Work". Because in our modern world working correctly has become a rarity.

And that's Microsoft's fault. They set the tone.

And how much has that tone cost us? How much good technology could be implemented if people trusted it more? How much further could we have gone if we could have focused more of humanity's intelligence on Curing Cancer and less on Curing the newest malware that exploits one of the endless bugs in Windows?

As far as his charitable contributions I'd point to the enormous amount of money spent fixing problems with Microsoft's crappy software and ask this: How much of that IT money would people have donated to charity if they hadn't lost it maintaining shoddy solutions? I don't know the answer but between viruses, malware, and Windows bugs you have 300 billion a year in the U.S. alone. It wouldn't take a large percentage of that to match the roughly $60 billion in Gates' personal fortune.

So don't tell me Gates is Superman because he's not.
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And Justin Frankel. He and his peeps at Nullsoft cranked out some great stuff