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Agreed, but this is part of a much wider problem with the currency of pages that have a high search engine rank.

Try searching for information about an obscure problem with (say) Linux. The pages found often relate to earlier versions of the OS and even in some cases 2.4.xx kernels. You have to know a bit to be able to filter the search for newer releases.
> I challenge anyone who doesn't know anything about Perl

Now that premise in itself is silly and you know it. (I could get a code sample for any language that would be impossible to understand by someone who doesn't know anything about tha language and it wouldn't even have to be a complicated one.)

> I'm just curious why Perl is still relevant for anything except legacy code

Few languages are as evolvable as Perl. Nowadays Perl has a better object system than Ruby and the only hard part is getting it into the core.

Also, i should probably point out that i got a tad unlucky in that the first example i grabbed was meant to do some fairly language-integral stuff, namely reloading all the libraries already loaded into memory: https://metacpan.org/module/Module::Refresh
decx, if you want to check others voice (you can do it online) you can mail me at pierre@lescapadou.com. Thanks

I really love to make it better for UK people. This is small market compared to the US but as you can see in my post, small market (like France) can be profitable as well. By the way, I've also have a lot of request to use a UK voice for Montessori Crosswords and that's something I want to do as well (in this app it is a recorded voice)
For Monster World we did not consider this as the game is running fine (or good enough) as it is now. During the last weeks we were more focused on reducing RAM consumption of our databases as that is currently the main driver of cost and operation overhead.

Regarding your idea: Wouldn't then the Node.js server have to keep the whole user state in memory?
"Make a small cross, of two light strips of cedar; the arms so long, as to reach the four corners of a large thin silk handkerchief, when extended: tie the corners of the handkerchief to the extremities of the cross; so you have the body of a kite..."

Love it.

Also, the first paper by Newton, on his new theory about light and colour. He was still just a "Mr."!

http://rstl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/6/69-80/3075....
That's pretty funny. iirc you are a desktop Linux user, right? Do you use it because it's "taking over the market" or because it works well for you?
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Let me just point out that i wrote the linked blog post. :)

I agree with everything you said and would like to make it more succinctly: We need to figure out a way to make what CPAN authors write relevant for newbies.
Until Windows Phone supports an encrypted filesystem I can't really see stealing any substantial amount corporate marketshare. Now that Android 4 is out, it's the only mainstream smartphone that does not have this feature out of the box (and pretty much the most common and sensible requirement in ActiveSync provisioning is encrypted storage).
Oops, my fault.
That's not really a current concern for the perl community. That was true 15 years ago.

Lots of 15-year-old code is out there on the internet for folks to sneer at.
You're right in that it is not the right search, but as i said on Reddit about this:

What people should search for is immaterial. For us in the perl community, only what people do search for counts.
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I suspect that it will become the norm if it is popular enough.
At least in my area, people already talk to their phones in public. You just have to think of Siri as the "person" on the other end of the line and it isn't strange at all.
I'd also recommend the Higher-Order Perl book:

http://hop.perl.plover.com/book/
Obviously. But that's a very uncommon practice in Eastern Europe and Asia (the two areas I'm familiar with). And the applicant was from the same area.
"We’re getting to the point where everything’s a computer in a different form factor. So what, right? So what if it’s built with a computer inside it? It doesn’t matter. It’s, what is it? How do you use it? You know, how does the consumer approach it? And so who cares what’s inside it anymore?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc8QXzYQoBY
The term "killer app" seems kind of outmoded, but I'm still waiting for WP7 to show me some really new functionality. I don't think we need something that can do the same stuff we've been doing for years on mobile phones, even if they've streamlined things here and there and have a pretty piece of hardware.

Also, I honestly wonder if the dashboard-oriented UI makes it weak as an app platform. I have two friends who switched from iPhone to WP7 and they've both remarked how few apps they use/buy outside of the included ones. The big tiles are nice, but they also mean one's homescreen is likely to be completely dominated by basic functionality apps (e-mail, contacts, pictures, etc). I'm sure that this enhances those select home screen apps, but I think it discourages adding much. Knock the iPhone interface, but the screens pages of tiny colorful icons do seem to encourage people to collect apps like badges and actually use them more.
Injecting a little humor and character into your corporation via some creative pages on your website will make me _more_ likely to do business with you. It humanizes the company.
I'd be more wary of their own website not scaling. (I was able to see the page a few minutes ago but now their website is down.)
I'm sure chromatic will read this at some point. Wonder what he thinks about setting it up as a proper website.
The funny thing is that he is clearly thinking like a computer programmer in his first sentence. I wonder if naive users would generally have better results on first contact with Siri, compared to technical users who try to over-structure their commands?
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I think that with economic models used for trading there is also another big problem: Their application changes the model itself. So, even if you had a perfect model for the market without you applying your model, as soon as you start applying it, the market changes... and this is also true for all the other quants who do the same with their models.

IMHO, it was much better when most stock market decisions were mostly based on "fundamentals". Because that way the market was incentivising sound business decisions.
Lord Acton said to judge talent at its best and character at its worst. Large human organizations tend to judge both at their worst, and to be negative on unknown people for a longer time than any single rational actor would be, which is why "dues paying" periods are so ridiculously long. What this means is that the people who get ahead are people who can sustain a middling performance over a long time without even a whiff of failure, and not the creative, passionate people who take a lot of risks and can hit the high notes but occasionally screw up.

There are high-variance (passionate) and low-variance (professional) people, and various gradations in between. HV tend to swing (in work performance) between 2 and 10, while LV tend to swing between 5 and 7. If you're HV, it means you learn quickly and can do great things but it's also a statistical near-guarantee that you'll be fired at least once in your career (don't worry; in the long term, it's not as big a deal as you think it is).

Game development on AAA titles is no different. Don't go into it thinking a high level of creative talent will launch you into a position of major influence. You may or may not have creative talent, but not only do you have to prove it first, but you have to get into a position where you can prove it-- and the latter is much harder, because the only people who can get on projects where creativity is visible are those who've already put a lot into the political bank.

Passionate people look at the garbage games typical of the industry and think, "I could do so much better!" And they're 100% correct. That also doesn't matter.

My advice (which is so cliche): forget about games, except as a hobby and possibly something to study. Play them and build independent games if you wish, but consider "game design" a non-option without one hell of a lift. Learn how to program. Programming opens up a lot of problems that are fun in their own right even if you're not working on games. A lot of programming problems are far more interesting than running 8-figure video games; trust me on this. Become a really great programmer. That will pay off regardless of whether one ever goes into the video game industry. And becoming a top-1% programmer (takes 10+ years, start now) will make entry into the game industry at a decent level (for a passionate person unwilling to pay dues for decades) possible.
While people are starving, terrorized, enslaved and such, and that's really bad, that doesn't necessarily mean there's no point in asking whether you're any happier than you'd be as a subsistence farmer.^

If anything, a proper analysis of what really makes us happy could encourage us to use some of our material wealth helping those who are truly oppressed.

^Spoiler alert: Probably not.
As Marx wrote, from your link, " 'theft' as a forcible violation of property presupposes the existence of property." And this is true for tangible property, though importantly not true for intangible, intellectual constructs.

The term "Intellectual Property" is a misnomer. It would be better named "Intellectual Control" as it does not in any way protect the inventor's natural right to use the fruits of their invention. Rather, it exists only to deprive others of a similar ability. Patents derive their value not from the nature and value of invention, but from the controls and limits placed on the intellectual freedoms of others.

We do not know how to share physical objects, so assignment of use is natural and necessary. This is not true of intellectual constructs.
Journalist in big blog or newspaper cannot be reached directly (I think they should receive hundred of mails everyday!). So you need to have a nice app and make some noise and perhaps they will hear about it. I was very lucky for my first app (check the previous post on my blog), but for the second it was easier because people knew about my apps already (it was through Children's Technology Review that I've got an article for Word Wizard)
For the App Store, it is still a mystery but of course you need a great app and with great artwork (I noticed that all the featured app have georgous artwork).
Huh, the buttons are vol. up, vol down, power and camera(works even when in sleep/locked so that you can quickly take a picture unlike fiddling with the power and touchscreen on the iPhone). I don't see how that's numerous when they are all pretty useful.
Good point, we'll sort that. Thanks
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I know this is going to sound stupid, but one of the things I like iOS and Android is that you can set your own wallpaper. Does Windows 7 Phone support that? I ask because blocks on a solid background strikes me as boring.

(BTW, my old Zune did support wallpapers, so this is a step backwards if Windows 7 Phone doesn't.)
Hey guys, this is a little extension of the game posted on Friday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3138712 hopefully people find it fun.
It's a good book, but i don't think it's good for newbies. Some parts of it still go over my head. :D
Thanks for letting us know, looking into it now.
I just sent them a code to review the app as I did with a lot of blogs or children's technology specialist
My earlier comment (which was for some reason downvoted) also solves this problem: you will always sleep for half a second, timer resolution is irrelevant, and if an attacker bogs down the system such that bcrypt takes longer than half a second, when the timer finished it would notice that bcrypt wasn't done and treat it as a failure.

It would be a bit of a hack compared to just using bcrypt every time, but it would save processing power, which may be useful in some contexts, like very energy-efficient devices, etc.
Especially if I install loudspeakers in my classroom that whisper 'rm -R ~/' over and over like a mantra...

Back on topic, some years ago if you saw someone walking along having an animated conversation with no visible participant, you would have assumed a form of mental illness. Now, you just assume they are using their hands free set. I think it will catch on.
Wait, really? I was under the notion that the banking was service only. I'm in!
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I'm going to add another comment because I've read the bulk of the responses here from the asker, and I think they are being deliberately provocative to wind people up. I'm not sure if its to get Kudos or what.

Nobody is as downright arogant as the asker seems to suggest he is, without wanting to be provocative.

Go ahead take the deal, ignore the advice here and don't come back for any more.
Reading this discussion on bcrypt and timing attacks, I have a question. Aren't systems like these designed so that even someone who has access to the hashed password, the randomly created salt and the hashing algorithm cannot find the password? If timing attacks help in some way, doesn't this mean some small compromise for this goal? Bruteforce attacks can of course be done faster by someone who has access but this seems to be independent from timing issues.
"Knock the iPhone interface, but the screens pages of tiny colorful icons do seem to encourage people to collect apps like badges and actually use them more."

Is that a good thing? Because I'm really not sure that it is. I used a W7 phone for a few weeks and I actually loved not having to launch half a dozen different apps- I view a person, I see their Facebook updates, their tweets, photos, etc. all in one place. It's awesome.
I just worked hard (and time is money!) + some money for hardware and some Press Release and ads (about $2500 I think). I've done everything myself so far.
I will add this to the post, thanks the comment
Third parties can add similar functionality to their live tiles too, and a lot of apps do that. For example, the package tracker app can update the live tile with the latest location of the package, the twitter app can update with the latest tweets or tweet count etc. That is the whole point of the 'glance and go' mantra. When you're busy doing other stuff, you can just glance at the homescreen to see if there's something important or not. A bunch of icons like every other phone UI designed by Xerox PARC in the early 1980s doesn't do that.
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The 2T bboe is likely talking about in place reserves, not recoverable reserves. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves#Proven_reserves for a discussion of the definitions 'in place', 'proven', and 'probable'.

Fracking is still a young-ish technique, and last I knew the recovery rates were less than 5%. I don't think it will get above 10% even with technology improvements. Which is still a boatload of Oil / NG / NGL. It's still just 8 years of global demand at current rates.
Thanks for posting. Something about this rubs me the wrong way, so I read it a couple times to help me formulate my feedback.

I think the problem I have with this is that I can't create the same level of abstraction on the 'modern system' and 'slavery' that the author does. I'm not offended by the use of slavery as a point of comparison, but I don't think that it's really compared to the 'modern system' in a useful way. They are so many leagues apart, which can't be shown through the logical comparisons present in the article.

Also, the examples of entanglement aren't really inescapable evils that the argument requires (I'm looking at you car and iphone). I have no doubt those evils are out there.

But, you say, I'm missing the point. True enough, and I think there's a good point in this post that can be teased out through a little more revision. I think the payoff is at the end...the portion on disentangling. This is the hacker ethos, yes? Recognizing the artificial/restrictions and subverting it to make your life better. The best part of the article was where the author linked to his/her startup; it really shows where the logic is taking us. I guess I'd prefer it if this were more explicit in the conclusion (and probably more appealing to the people in this venue, although the many supportive comments indicate that many make this logical connection automatically). Again: Thanks.
Also, if you're using HipChat, you should give robut a try:

https://github.com/justinweiss/robut
Thanks Fate. Good luck to your fiancee, I know it's tough. If she needs any advice on the exams, let me know.

You are right. I will just have to get it done. At this point, I'll go with outsourcing, which doesn't necessarily mean offshore, but it could. I want quality work. I will have to do my research about it but will look into sites like rent-a-coder, odesk, elance, etc. I'll approach it as you said, I appreciate the help.

I still will try to learn to code on a basic level to converse and not be entirely blind to what's going on, but I'm not sure if it's a good choice to try and program when it would take a significant time commitment. I'm not against a time commitment, but by saving that time, it frees me to focus on other areas of the business.

ANYWAY! I will stop with the typing.

It seems my choice is to stay with my job (although I might leave to find one that is less all-consuming of my time) and outsource the initial development. Obviously it would have been ideal if I already knew how to code or had a good friend who could code and wanted to join me. Unfortunately, neither is the case... and I'm not sure creating the MVP myself is the best proposition.

If someone thinks otherwise, let me know though. Perhaps I'm missing something here.

Lastly, any advice on outsourcing development would be appreciated. Thanks.
I like the data binding stuff but other than that I found XAML a huge pain. Lots of auto-generated stuff mixed in with stuff that I edit as well. It doesn't break but I'd rather have some separation between generated stuff and stuff that I write. (e.g. the generation gap pattern, often useful for models)

Navigation is a blessing and a curse, some kind of modal view or overlay would ease the pain there. I don't know if MS is working on it but it's frustrating that they claim it's an "edge case". Almost every single login or sign up window is a transient thing like that, and you can't navigate in a navigation handler so chaining transitions is a headache.

Other than those 2 issues it was good, but I would develop for iOS and even Android over WP7 any day.
What a load of junk. Pardon my French, but this is not slavery by any stretch of the imagination.

This is modern slavery:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_slavery

Poor impulse control with respect to buying gadgets, thinking you have to keep up with the neighbours, assuming that you can be part of society without having to pull your weight, calling employers 'owners', ignoring social security (which is quite effective in many countries), these are all choices and the writer of the article seems to miss the point that these are choices.

Modern society works because we want it to work, we choose representatives which enact the laws which in turn create incentives to participate in society. For the most part, we govern ourselves through our ability to vote. Slaves could not vote.

Sure it isn't all roses, there are plenty of areas where there is waste and there is lots of unfairness.

The deck can feel stacked against you, that's a fact. But that does not mean that this equates to slavery, even in a modern sense. That does a great disservice to those that actually are in slavery today and whose plight makes the one of someone that has a hard time to refuse buying the next generation iGadget look like exactly what it is: A luxury problem.

There are factors at work to improve the situation (not always equally effective): technological progress means more pay for far less work, unions that give people that work collective power, and that have in some cases toppled governments (see Poland, ca. 1986) and so on.

Slavery is a serious issue, not living above your means and matching your expenses to your income so you don't run into debt is a bookkeeping problem and a psychological one.

The option to 'self employ' instead of being a part of the system is a false dichotomy, the third (unlisted) alternative is to be a bum.

And there is absolutely nothing wrong with choosing to be a bum.

Care should be taken to distinguish between societies that have a proper social security system in place and those that don't. For those countries that do not the number of choices people have may be seriously reduced and typically those countries have a larger percentage of their population below the poverty line or in the homeless category, and definitely not by choice.

Even in those situations you'd be hard pressed to call them slaves.
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You know how a car works? How a plane works? How a nuclear generator, water purification plant, and skyscraper construction works? I can't speak for anyone else, but I can only know so much. For the rest of mankind's knowledge, I rely on the rest of mankind. It's worked out pretty well so far.
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I understood GP's point as being about the use of the word slavery (to describe something that is not as bad as the real cases of modern slavery) rather than about the whole article being pointless.
I'm in the "language evolves" camp, but I find "funner" to be pretty awkward. Oddly, I hear "funnest" a lot more often and it comes across a lot more naturally to me. I find it cloying/annoying for marketing copy to try to push the envelope like this.
In mobile, that's not actually the case. People tend to throw in the -webkit- css prefixes and nothing else. So Opera, Firefox and IE all suffer.
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How about letting the user change language? If you have some interface or something I could help with Swedish. I really can't wait for this to be more complete (+Quantity is what I am referring to)

Also I have a bug. If I write "iPhone 3GS $70" it does not show. If I add a description it shows.
Anyone who is cold-calling isn't a good recruiter.

I completely disagree. The most successful recruiters always need to generate new business in order to stay successful and whilst it's great to pick up business from recommendations, often you are left with no option but to pick up the phone and start introducing yourself to people.