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Of course edw519 doesn't actually cringe. If we were to observe edw519 while he read Zach's post, we wouldn't actually see him cringe. So edw519 is a liar. But of course I don't call him out for being a liar, because exaggeration is something that reasonable people do to make their fucking point.

However, edw519, is specifically making the assertion (no mere suggestion) that in some way his ability to absorb the information that Zach presents is "distracted" (and I assume that means in some way reduced or impaired). All because Zach uses these letters: 'f' 'u' 'c' 'k' one after the other. That's not rational. Its victim mentality.

Imagine a world where one had to moderate what one said or did based on whether or not someone might be offended. Are you going to require that all women wear a burqa so as not to offend our fundamentalist muslim citizens?

No. The idea is preposterous.

Oh, but when it comes to your squeamish morality, thats reasonable and Zach should modify his behavior.

Since there is no objective moral reason for Zach not to swear, it comes down to the relationship between Zach and edw519. edw519 is saying either "don't swear or i wont listen", or "poor me, you swear and i get all distracted and just can't help myself". One is a threat and one is victimhood, and neither have a consequence for Zach.

So my advice on meditation is sincerely offered. If one is going to go around in life being upset or distracted by "fuck", that's a pretty sad way to live. If you give someone else power over your emotions or ability to process information that's a victim mentality.
I've made a few hundred dollars total over the past year or so. I don't blog for ad revenue, I blog for the fun of it. Basically all I do is stick a couple of relevant Amazon affiliate links on most of my posts. Whilst it's not a lot of money, it more than pays for the Linode server that my blog runs on.
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This is a very good idea. Europe absolutely needs to showcase our startups, even if this is only for UK now.
Part of the problem in this case is that the company can fire someone for no reason, even if they are working well and doing their job. This is 'at-will employment' and is common in USA, but outright illegal in, say, the EU. If the employee was able to sue the company (potentially getting compensation) for a wrongful dismissal, then the company would not be able to fire people who didn't agree to the new vesting options.

IANAL, but there are a few ways you could lock yourself into this. Could you have your company in an EU member state, hence making yourself abide by EU law? Could you put something in employment contracts saying that you never will hire someone 'at will'? etc.

I applaud your attitude of making your company a good place.
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Umm, I really, really have no idea (wow, I'm being a useful resource here!)--the first thing I did when I got it home was install Linux, completely overwriting even the backup partition (I had to do that in switching to software raid, I think).

So I've had this laptop for maybe two months (enough time to install the Windows 8 developer preview, granted) and run Linux exclusively. I really can't answer your question.

What I can say, though, is that while Linux tends to have more driver problems than Windows initially, they tend to be much simpler to solve. So if you can't upgrade from Windows, just switch to Linux ;) For every sleepless night I've spent looking for Linux drivers I spent two looking for Windows ones a couple years prior.
DrRacket may be sluggish sometimes, but I bet it's hell lot faster than Eclipse ;)

More seriously: is your netbook/laptop uses Gnome 3, Racket 5.2 fixes some issues with it which were present in 5.1.x.
> drop support for IE due to a lack of BUTTON support

We must be thinking about different BUTTON there. IIRC IE supports button since version 4.
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That "we" is painful to read. I had a similar service earlier this year, initial reaction was positive, but everyone signed up and never used it again.

Me included.

My take on it? it's easier to pull up the app store and search for whatever than it is to open safari, load the webpage, then click and wait for the app store to load anyway.

Long lists would work? I thought so too, but then people don't like the back and forth between safari and app store.

Saying that, SMS was a feature I didn't have.

Good luck all the same, and do make a 1 month later update if you have time!
So removing error handling makes code "confident"?

There were some other good points in there about encapsulation, but communicating to users properly trumps looking pretty to programmers.
Style, decoration and usability are not mutually exclusive. As with many disciplines they can co-exist beautifully. Frank Lloyd Wright's buildings wouldn't look much chop if he hadn't taken style into consideration.
On my iPad this demo just works by tapping. Very smooth too.
Yes, you do, and I'm proof.
Only for some people. For others, including myself, usability wins every time. Even for entertainment, I want the controls to fade into the background.
Nope.

Set your browser's user agent to "Google" to see. This is a common exploit to lift scam sites in SERPs.

Screen shot:

http://autoreverse.s3.amazonaws.com/2011110_Babson_Freep_hac...

Google cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JIadb7r...
I never said it was an iphone vs developer problem - I said it was a platform vs developer problem.

If developers choose en masse various interface methods that a particular platform doesn't support - that platform loses.. end of story.

Nor is there anything inherently impossible about hover + touchscreen. Double tap to prevent scrolling (and at least on my nexus S I'd prefer that to zooming which 3/4 times doesn't actually zoom at all). Move finger across screen - stop over element without additional tap. That's hover baby!

Not sure why folks voting me down. What I'm saying is not only right - it's sensible... and it's also preferable. Developers should be deciding UI reality.
1. How did G+ know who to recommend to you in the first place, who are Not yet members of G+?

2. Did G+ ask you for address book access?
I'll weigh in with some context to back up your traffic stats. My blog is basic and I don't have a product to sell. Generally just me ranting about stuff that winds me up. http://www.voltsteve.blogspot.com

The post with the most views was 'My experiences as a recruiter on Hacker News'. Now, granted, a post with that title is going to attract a lot of views but the HN post had almost 400 upvotes and to date, that particular post has had 21k Pageviews and approximately 90% of that came directly from HN.
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Microsoft had/has a lot to do with that.
I want a Macbook Air like laptop, but I don't want it so expensive and designed for Mac OS. I want a cheaper machine running Ubuntu? What's so bad about making this available?

On a different note, the attempt to show how the internal design of Asus copies that of Apple is laughable. The PCBs look completely different, except for maybe the main fan placement. But think about the space constraints in such a device and it becomes obvious there aren't too many options!
This seems to be the same line of reasoning that protects YouTube from legal responsibility for users' content.

No, what legally protects YouTube from uploaded infringing content is the safe habour part of the DMCA. YouTube is legally immune if they obey valid take down requests.

It appears that the big media companies are not fulfilling all the parts of the DMCA.
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A company can send non-legally binding notices to copyrighted content it does not own?

The DMCA tale down notice requires you to swear under penalty of perjury. So, if you claim something that's not yours it's like lying under oath.

Whether or not Big Media will be held to this standard depends on how cynical you are.
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If edw519 had said "swear words adds nothing" and left it that then he'd have made my fucking point for me. It was the part where he said that it made him cringe that I was responding to. Clue: that's the bit I quoted. Did me quoting that part not help you?

Why? Do you really think this type of comment adds something valuable to the discussion?

Valuable??? LOL. We're having 150+ comments on swearing. I'm sorry. What exactly are you expecting to get out of this whole thing? That we'll all go wash our mouths out with soap?
I wonder if there is case for a lawsuit here especially if there is no across the board performance issue with all of these employees who are being asked to surrender stock.

I would argue that they were promised something that the company is failing to deliver and it is thus engaging in fraud, but I am not a lawyer thus I am unsure how to make this into an effective legal argument.
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Surely this is a simple legal problem? Don't you have to swear under penalty of perjury that you've done it in good faith, etc.? Is WB essentially admitting to perjury? Don't the courts know how to deal with this?
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I think this collection clearly shows the simplicity and utility of short, potentially imperfect regular expressions. Reading and writing expressions like this--even if you never use them in your code--is a skill that almost every programmer would benefit from.
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I can absolutely second this. I read it once a year. Many of its techniques are readily applicable to programming or design, after a tiny bit of abstraction.
Crap. This will be the next flash, won't it? Should I start writing the CSS3Block extension for all major browsers now, or is the effort already underway?
Not if you throw away quality to achieve the lower price.
Here's the problem with your position.

If the employer says "You're only providing $X in value (where your RSUs amount to $X+Y so now we're going to fire you or you'll agree to only take $X in RSUs" then, by working at a startup, you have a significant downside (the startup could well go belly up) but no upside.

Why no upside? Because your capital gain on the shares you took a pay cut for might at any time (for unvested stock) be reduced to your market value... which you could've simply earned elsewhere by taking that as a salary.

It's risk versus reward. What we see here, if true, is that the risk remains the same but the reward has been significantly chopped.

Dustin Markowitz [1] is a billionaire, largely by virtue of the "skill" of being Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard roommate. He "earned" ~$5 billion from Facebook, which if memory serves, is less than Steve Jobs made from Apple's second stint (where he, you know, turned a company on the verge of bankruptcy into a $300+ billion juggernaut with $80+ in cash and $100+ billion in annual revenue). Did Muskowitz provide comparable value? Of course not.

But he did take a gamble, like anyone joining (or founding) a startup. If this pseudo-clawback [2] behaviour becomes commonplace, it undermines the entire startup scene (IMHO).

[1]: http://whoownsfacebook.com/

[2]: I say "pseudo-clawback" because "clawback" has a far more evil meaning. Just look at Skype. http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/06/27/skypes-evil...
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It's actually pretty easy to make an employee friendly "deferred compensation" program in the U.S. as evidenced by the way most financial firms structure stock grants. Under these plans, the stock continues to vest, even if the employee is laid off. The only way to lose unvested shares is to quit or get fired for cause.

This type of program is really good for retaining highly paid employees in established companies, but might not be ideal for startups.
Fascinating. Makes me think of the original meaning of the word 'essay' - 'to attempt.'
The Tegra3 has an ARM CPU and (presumably) an Nvidia GPU. The announcement from ARM is about a new GPU in the MALI family. SoC designers are free to mix CPU and GPU from any vendors they choose. While ARM is currently by far the most popular CPU choice, their GPU is in a much weaker position although its share seems to be increasing.
This seems to be a really good idea coupled with what looks like a good execution.

I don't think the article mentioned a price, but it seems it will start at around $499 for 32GB storage space. I think this could easily replace the sort of notebook most people get for that amount of money, and with 18 hours (!) of battery life, it would probably serve them better as well.

If this sort of product takes off, it could really be the year of Linux on the laptop--just in the form of Android. At the very least, I can dream...
Not all 'ultrabooks' look like the MacBook Air, as the article states.

For example the Lenovo IdeaPad U300s:
http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/8/2546923/lenovo-ideapad-u30... [a review from The Verge]
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As long as actual damage includes:
1) Attorney fees
2) Business disruption costs
3) The time I have to spend away from work to carry the suit forward (in other words, the longer they drag it out, the more the damages are)...
4) Interest on all the foregoing.....
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That's what was meant, I assume, but it's misguided. Right joins don't create a "code smell" for technical reasons, but for practical reasons. Because left joins are the standard approach, if you're using a non-standard approach to a common problem you'd better have a damned good reason (because you're just confusing maintenance programmers... and thus causing errors... with no justification, otherwise).
Just a precision. I see two questions of interest when talking about whether height and IQ come from genetic or environmental factors.

The first question is, how much of the currently observed variability in height (and IQ) is explained by genetic factors and environmental factors respectively? Meaning, how much of a lottery genes actually are?

The second question is, how could we take control of the variability? Meaning, how much could we deliberately influence height (and IQ) through genes and environment respectively?

By itself, the first question is of high academic interest, and low practical interest. The second question is just the opposite. But more important, those two questions should be treated separately, so everyone knows what we are talking about.
OTOH, if it wasn't restricted, the damage done to the rights holders would be more, right?

It seems to me that one could argue persuasively that it does make it easier for rights holders because it contains the damage.
Thanks for these. I was able to enjoy them on their own merit without having to resort to fire and brimstone speculation that we're entering a new "skip intro" era.
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As always about this request for "real" deletion of data, I wonder of what kind of people there are more of:

Those that are concerned that the data they deleted isn't really deleted?

Or those that learn that they can't get their data back which they just now accidentally deleted?

I'm a techie. I'm part of the first group. But daily I have to deal with the second group. Telling them that, no, you deleted the data, so now it's gone, would break their heart.

And. No. I can't have backups of that data because having a backup would be the same as not really deleting it. Think of retroactively altering the backups of the days where the data still existed shudder.

This is pure theory anyways as there is a huge difficulty in reliably deleting data once it's replicated all over different machines.

By the way: I wonder how this request for immediate deletion flies with the more and more strict data retention laws that the EU is issuing. You know: Either you store the data for the state (and thus don't delete it), or you delete it, at which point it's gone.
Agreed, but effects like this are not style, they are a cheap veneer applied to otherwise poorly thought out designs. Fashionable kitsch integrated into otherwise unoriginal, uninspired designs.
Does Moore's law apply to any technology?
Wow, this is really terrible. The EU-ro-crats think that EU citizens, while using a service in the EU, should be protected by European laws. How dare they?
No, backbone-rails comes with Backbonejs' latest version: https://github.com/codebrew/backbone-rails/blob/master/vendo...

It seems like the difference boils down to directory structure and that backbone-rails includes tests.
We all know what happens when a startup's stock "underperforms": absolutely nothing. I'm not entirely sure why an employer should reasonably expect to manage its exposure to employee underperformance risk on a dimension where the employee doesn't have similar recourse.

If employers are worried about a serious disconnect between performance over time and equity payout, they might cap the valuation of an equity stake by taking back call options with high strike valuations. They could then give more shares or extinguish calls in response to performance. But this would reduce the apparent value of the up-front stock grant, and thus the employee's incentive to come on board.

I don't know enough to support firm conclusions, but this doesn't sound like behavior I'd hope to emulate.
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Having recently worked with a Ruby codebase where anything could be nil at anytime, I consider even references to nil to be a code smell. Developers are inherently prone to ignoring error handling, so they'll happily ignore the fact that Order#customer really means Order#customer_or_nil. And when they see errors in production, they'll slap an andand on it and call it fixed. The code becomes extremely difficult to reason about.

I prefer that functions throw an exception when unable to do what they promised, rather than return nil or a null object. The try-catch block serves as documentation that the function might fail. If someone forgets to catch the exception, it will shut everything down rather than leave the program in an unanticipated state that could lead to an error elsewhere.
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"Chasing eyeballs, at least to me, turns blogging into something a lot less fun."

An important corollary to this is: chasing eyeballs without any way to retain them is neither fun nor productive. The article -- which I quite enjoyed -- does a nice job of pointing that out. And, while the point may sound obvious, it's certainly nontrivial and not immediately intuitive. And even if you have nothing tangible to sell, you're still "selling" your blog. So you've got to make it consistently engaging to the people you've decided to target.

The first mistake many bloggers make is to write for themselves. They assume that an article they found interesting to write will also be interesting to read -- or worse, that an overarching blog topic they love is interesting to a big group of people. Not always the case. You can write about your passions, and you can always lure in a bunch of outside readers with a well-marketed post. But don't expect everyone -- or even 99% of those whose attention you got -- to stick around if they don't care for the rest of the material on your blog.

I'm not advocating that everyone write big, general-interest, broad-topic blogs. The internet has enough of those. So writing about a niche domain is fine. Just be consistent, and stick within that domain. Deviate every now and then if you have something amazing to say. But don't be one of those blogs that's ostensibly about X, but veers off into Y and Z greater than 50% of the time. If I came to your blog to read about startup marketing strategies, I really don't care what you have to say about college basketball, or Call of Duty, or the pricing of the Harry Potter Blu-ray set. Don't write just anything that comes to mind. Have the discipline to stick to a domain and a "brand." Joel on Software is about Joel on software; it's not "Joel on Software and Kittens and Foreign Film Reviews and Fixed-Gear Bikes and What He Saw at Starbucks The Other Day."
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These regexps might be useful as first approximations - but they are not as robust as the article suggest they are (for example numbers can contain decimal point or decimal comma depending on your language, parsing email addresses is a subject for an essay and I've heard the correct Perl regexp for that takes about a page of text). This article is harmful - because those who can benefit from this kind of basic regexp examples are also those who will not understand the limitations.
See also "agile", "lean", and the winner is: "synergy".

This is an unfortunate reality, as these words are all still useful in their original meaning and there are no replacement terms. So you're damned if you do, damned if you don't. Use the word and people cringe. Don't use the word and you lose the power of expression.

Not that you can stop it, or should try to. Anyone who does is naieve about the way language evolves.
I recall that this was the default action of Smalltalk? I can't find a reference though, so I am very likely incorrect.

In Objective-C nil will absorb any messages too, see the section "Sending Messages to nil" in http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#DOCUMENTATION/Cocoa/...
I always wondered what bothered me about these 'The Game' approaches to "successfully influence people" and I think you really nailed it down.

OF COURSE people will find it easier to agree with you if they have agreed with you before - that should be obvious. The question is - what do you have to do to get that? 'The Game' seems to say - "well, anything that is necessary, of course", as though aping people into nodding was some kind of accomplishment and as though that accomplishment in itself was admirable and healthy.

I'd rather have people actually agree with me in small things that we both care about and then be happy to agree with me big time. If you need to bullshit, "warm up" or in some other ways mislead people (and yes, that includes "Weather is great, isn't it?" when you don't really care about the weather), you are building a pile of very tiny lies to make the jump to the big lie less noticeable. At some point, you will just cross the bullshit horizon, the point at which MOSTLY what you do is lie to and trick people - and have fun with your empty soul while you're at it.

It is indeed a cargo cult - you do achieve things with it, but then you sit there in your wooden mock-up flight control tower next to your empty dirt runway wearing your headphones made of straws and wonder why you never seem to actually be happy.
Hi there! I made mostly random changes until it worked, so I have no idea why this contorted approach fixes the earlier failures. But I spend two weeks on this section, so don't touch it!

[this comment removed and replaced with the "Trust me" line, because maybe multi-line comments are breaking things today...]
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Who actually requests their data back from Facebook if they deleted it? And why would that be Facebook's responsibility if you deleted it? At the very least it should give you the option to permanently delete it, too.

I think if normal people would really know that Facebook keeps their data even after they deleted it, they would get pretty freaked out about it, too.
Soooo... what is it supposed to do? Looks like a million sub-selects and joins! Already have a headache just with looking at it. I'd probably right it all over again from scratch.