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I like more the idea of "The idea is that a 10X programmer does 10 times the work of a mediocre programmer." in 10x less time.
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The truth is that most of Indian dailies are not fit for reading any science related news or even news for that matter.

With the exception of "The Hindu", which is the only daily I find professional, without bias to any ideology/organisation and mostly free of grammatical, spelling and other errors.
I am hacker and a geek, but nowadays I am more and more interested in marketing.
I am wondering in what part the existence of such a lab and the emphasis in their communication on A.I. is a conscious marketing effort. I can imagine that even if nothing from that lab will make direct profit for them, and even if their search engine will never be even close to strong A.I. they can communicate an excellent marketing message: when you use Google you use strong A.I. (or at least almost).
If we think about it this way the secretiveness can also make the story more exciting from a marketing perspective. Also if this is their main motivation then they will create more 'spectacular' prototypes rather than just honestly trying to solve deep problems.
The flip side is that EC2 is expensive for what it provides in terms of server power per dollar, and switching costs are considerably lower if you're doing the smart thing and already taking advantage of provider redundancy. Amazon may be ahead now, but they can't stop swimming.
Apparently inspired by Lisp as well; this old '91 Usenet post by a Lucid employee claims that SPARC added the tagged-arithmetic support specifically for Lucid Common Lisp: http://compilers.iecc.com/comparch/article/91-04-082
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No. And that's one of the problems. For DVD rentals, no licensing is required. All Netflix has to do is purchase the consumer DVDs and ship them to people who want them. Streaming, on the other hand, requires lots of complex negotiations with the rights-holders.
Windows Phone 7 uses IE9 and that is a darned good browser.

I dont know what browser Windows Mobile uses but its irrelevant since Windows Phone 7 replaced it.
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I never pursued a comp sci degree in college, and it's possible that you're right, their subject matter is so basic you don't need to actually take classes to learn the content. I guess you could further argue that sites like Hacker News are so good at helping you meet like-minded coders that literally living with people who have the same passions doesn't yield the same reward that it used to.

That said:

> plus all the required coursework that might be completely unnecessary for your goals.

These were the courses I have become most thankful for at college. I've taken courses on religion, existentialism, the history of the Enlightenment, an analysis of film genres, a course on silent cinema, a flamenco course, and a number of other classes which each incidentally taught me a new way to look at the world. A liberal arts education is a valuable thing, and it's so much easier to grasp its meaning when you're guided there by a number of skilled, caring professors than when you try and read your way to the same goal. I have no doubt that one day people will create a virtual experience that duplicates or improves on what my college experience has been like, but so far nothing comes close.

In fact, one of my only regrets at college was that it didn't make math or science courses mandatory. I'm regretting more and more that my science knowledge was a high school year of biology, chemistry, and physics apiece. I suspect that taking college courses in the sciences would have exposed me to teachers talented enough to make learning those subjects worthwhile. And it's difficult to search for books about rekindling your passions in the sciences; I find the field pretty obscure and not at all easy to navigate on my own.
In that interview, Gabe distinguishes between silent price changes and sales: silently changing the price had no effect on revenue, a promotion discount increased revenue.
If Flash dies, what will people use to prototype? It's used in UX testing everywhere I've looked. It's invaluable for quickly creating animated interactive prototypes. Flash is not just obnoxious websites and banner ads.
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>It wasn't a rational thing. It was emotional. All I'm trying to say is that Peldi's generosity affected me in a huge way.

What is it that you don't understand about that? As several posters have already pointed out, the letter isn't about what the software did for him, it's about what the act of generosity did for him.

Peldi's gracious gesture made myoder feel great and gave him drive that helped him finish his product. You're focussing on the wrong thing.
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Whenever I see lists like this, I think:

- why doesn't it read "list of good programming books"? (the more the merrier, but how about quality?)

- how can such a huge list help anyone? Certainly no-one will read a significant percentage of them.

I'm all for free quality content, but these lists seems to be just for collectors.
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"FUD". "non-comprehending journalism".

SO critical! SO reticent, yes, reticent!

But, but, but you have to understand that the article is written by a highly professional practitioner of the highly professional journalistic profession and published at the highly self-esteemed pinnacle of the professional journalistic profession the NYT!

Hang on each NYT word as a pearl, ruby, emerald, sapphire, or diamond of profound wisdom from, did I mention, the highly professional journalistic profession, you are supposed to do!

It's almost as if you are suspecting that the article is some attempt at creating a case of vicarious, escapist, fantasy, emotional, experience, entertainment (VEFEE) via celebrity identification and the 'threat' from the core of formula fiction and just independent of anything about the actual technical problem or technical solution!

SUCH reticence!

On Friday I got the mail and saw a catalog from Toys R Us. There were lots of toys for children 4-7. The boys were shown playing with toys based on machines, tools, and construction. The girls were shown playing with toys based on babies, people, and traditional housewife roles.

You seem to be saying that the NYT piece was written for readers interested in people and not things, that is, was written for girls instead of boys.

You are saying that the NYT is effeminate? Written for girls 4-7?

But, but, but, as we know, the NYT is a highly professional pinnacle of the highly professional journalism profession and would never stoop to mere, simplistic, irrelevant emotionalism to patronize, insult, manipulate, and pander to its highly respected readers!
This is nice. Unfortunately it does not work on devices with touch interfaces.

When you develop the next cool widget, consider that a large part of the web is now mobile. So that means no hovering, no mouse.

Deal with that.
Thousands of messages a day, though most of it filtered so it never shows up in my inbox.

I'm a technical director at a media agency, but the vast majority of my e-mail is stuff that goes to my personal account, related to various open source projects and my other things I do in my spare time - my work e-mail is maybe 5% of my total e-mail volume.

My use case is accessing my e-mail from 10+ different places, some of which I don't have decent shell access from (such as my phone, where a console based, key based client is out of the question), combined with heavy use of labels and priority inbox.

I gave up on console based e-mail clients about 12 years ago, when I co-founded a webmail service. Never looked back.
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Huh? I've never heard this complaint before.

Windows Phone 7 may be missing features and apps; its stark styling may not be to everyone's liking; but at least it's fast. It flies on a 1GHz Snapdragon. The newer Qualcomm SOCs can only be faster.
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Agreed. If you are an entrepreneur, it just becomes natural to think about everything in terms of market-value. I guess that this article could be a good alert to remember not to do that completely.
It'd be ok to do for a JIT, assuming the JIT knows the systems it targets can deal with it and/or has a fallback strategy for systems that don't.

But yes, not for ahead of time compiled code...
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In a typed exception system, you just assign different kinds of exceptions to all of those. Java also distinguishes between checked exceptions ("known unknowns") which need to be declared, and runtime exceptions ("unknown unknowns"). Sure, you can still catch all of them in one place, but that's very rarely a good idea.

A non-typed exception system (that doesn't solve the problem with another mechanism) just sounds like a very bad idea. Is Javascript like that?
I don't think apps have a major impact on purchasing factor for the general public. I would imagine that the most important web properties would already have Windows clients.

I feel the real reason is that the hardware so far has been really bland and nothing catches your attention. The Lumia has a fresh design that could kickstart the 'wow' factor.
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I haven't tried it but I believe there might be life even without apps. There are a couple of things Windows Phone 7 might do better: dedicated camera button (does anyone do the double tap to use the camera on the iPhone? I can't remember doing it most of the times.) and better notifications via the home screen. It would be enough for me to change if I needed to (which I don't, iPhone 4 is the best device I ever had).
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Couldn't disagree with this article more. What the author is saying is that to be a 10x programmer, you should be building scaffolding all day (instead of actually tackling the problem at hand and getting things done). The part about no margin for error is also ridiculous and is the type of thinking that results in aversion to risk rather than a process for dealing with errors.

The reality is that there are different types of coders who are better suited for different types of tasks. When you mismatch a coder to a task they aren't well suited for, results are not great. Some are super fast but there is little regard for how it was created (great for trying out new ideas that need validation), others are more methodical and better for tricky things that need to be done right.
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Well, Microsoft's marketing certainly works. IE9 is certainly better than IE8.

However, nothing gives me confidence that IE 9 will not be the new IE 6 and so I wish for IExplorer to just vanish completely.

You see, IExplorer 6 was also a darned good browser. But did it hold the web back? Yes it did. And for all the bullshit marketing coming from Microsoft, IExplorer 9 is doing it again. Nothing really changed.

http://people.mozilla.com/~prouget/ie9/
It totally depends on your Application. I wouldn't call a non existing file referenced by a db record, an strange log entry or a malformed xml returned by a webservice an "expected application-level problem". There is absolutely no way for a library writer to decide between an expected and an exceptional condition.
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You seem to be implying that he committed suicide, and that you could have done something about it.

Do you have any information about this? And why would you have been helpful in this situation?
"The Hindu", which is the only daily I find professional, without bias to any ideology/organisation

'The Hindu' is generally considered pro-CPM (Communist Party) hereabouts (South India).
> wouldn't there be a lot of overlap in the "dealing with publishers and licensing" department?

AFAIK rental and streaming rights are quite different (one is old-school simple model, another is a yucky "digital" that many publishers are scared of).
I'm in agreement with wes-exp, even though I still have to make the "long walk home", mono currently offers a workaround or perhaps a false reassurance that when the requirement comes up, you can still run your apps on Linux. Truth is it's lagging behind, it does not enjoy good community support (everybody in the *nix community is against it) and to top it Novell was acquired recently and the new management put a lid on mono. Miguel has started a new company but it seems their priority is standing on their feet first ( making money and being profitable). So, no. Mono is not a good alternative for .net at this point.
My WP7 Samsung Focus is incredibly snappy. I've never seen it hang or pause, even when dealing with poorly made apps.

As mentioned, not everyone will like the interface. But I find the interface intuitive and really accessible. Everything I want to do is within one click or one swipe.
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It did, for a hundred years. Professional athletes (outside of a few rare "rock stars" like Babe Ruth) often had to get second jobs in the off season up until the 1970s. If they wanted to continue playing sports professionally, they were at the whim of their team's owner, who could and did forbid them from playing for any other team.

Read up on the Reserve clause and Curt Flood for more info about how this all changed starting with Major League Baseball in the 1970s.
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> At least JavaScript doesn't have typed catches. Holy black mother of darkness, that shit is intolerable.

Well, if his complaint is about untyped catches, well, I guess they must suck. But if he thinks that typed catches are somehow worse (hint: they're better), he is wrong.

> But still, nothing is as bad as the common "On Error Resume Next" that so many terrible VB programs
start with.

Ok, everyone who always checks the return value of printf() in C, raise your hands. That's what I thought. The semantics of C is that whenever something fails, you just continue from the next line (statement, whatever...) even if the world is burning. Try-catch may suck, but checking for return values sucks more (in languages without pattern-matching), deal with it.
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> "So the big mistake I've always seen people make is being too "nervous" about exceptions and feeling that they have to do something about them as close as possible to the point where the exceptions were raised. They need to the exact opposite: feel relaxed about exceptions and let them bubble up."

While the principle seems to make sense, I find it unusable with GUI like apps. GUI have hundreds of entry point from various events. If I want to catch exceptions far from their raise I need to do it in each one of those event handler, so that they don't bubble through librairies, literally hundreds of times.

Every beautifully written code I've seen has always been CLI programs. Exceptions probably works for server code where you can crash your single process and/or redo it from your original request. GUI and frameworks apps can't really use crash as an acceptable behavior.
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This is a bad idea that keeps coming back again and again.

I see nothing wrong with exceptions, I do have a problem with (1) checked exceptions, and (2) catching exceptions prematurely and (3) people not learning how to use "finally" so they do (2) and rethrow.

Languages like Go and Scala roll out various mechanisms that bring us back to the bad old days of C, when we had to check the return/value and or the error code after every function call... if we wanted error handling to work.

The trouble with this approach is that it increases code bulk. For CS class projects, this isn't so bad, but when you're building real systems, the complexity of the error handling can approach or exceed the complexity of the "normal" path and when that happens you're in deep trouble.

Exceptions drastically reduce code bulk by introducing default "abort" behavior, which can itself be aborted at any level of the program and which can invoke cleanup anywhere in between.

Many programmers in many situations would be perfectly happy to catch "failure to open a file" and "failure to open a database connection" and "failure to connect to a network host" with one simple handler that logs the failure and either aborts, retries or ignores.
That and availability of phones. I only got a WP7 phone because it was available free as part of my two-year upgrade cycle. Once more of those models are available to the general public I imagine more people will start to use WP7.

Not saying it will ever overtake iPhone or Android, but it could certainly start to pick up more market share now that Nokia is using it.
Poorly written. I usually love reading "future vision" short stories, but I couldn't get past the bad writing.
What do people think is the better approach? Should we provide a responsive, interactive menu that works really well for computer users while providing a simpler, touch friendly menu for mobile users? Or should we provide a single interface that works for both and provides a consistent interface across all devices, but it dumbs down the gloss or functionality on the pc side?
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I guess someone could take the list, and put a rate up next to each book to see which ones people think are actually the quality books.

I still rate paper books over scanning through pdf for a solution or fix to a book. I'm definitely wrong though as the rest of the world values searchability over knowledge.
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Indeed.

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This Saturday we'll be holding our second annual indieconf, for independent web professionals. Sessions on marketing, legal, financial, business and a bit of tech will be run by experts in those fields, all with a focus on the web freelancer. Whether you're a designer, developer, or someone in between, indieconf should be useful with your existing freelance efforts, or help you get started working for yourself.

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See brief, older discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1444890
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I disagree. Someone found a bug in his essay and he removed it. No point repeating it to future visitors. In general, the final copy of a document does not include strikeouts.
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Very glad to learn that this is a wrong assumption.
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> Few people realize it, but you have very little control over the system.

That might be the difference in our POVs... Most of the time I work in environments where we do have control over the whole system, or at least aim for it.

> If you plot the uptime for servers, you will find that it looks like a very steep bell curve.

Unless they kernel paniced, systems I took care of run from one kernel update to the other. I never experienced the "cruft" in any way.

> I am not restarting because there is anything wrong with the system. It is not a solution to anything. It is a preventative measure.

So you don't know of anything going wrong. You're not fixing anything by restarting. You're restarting just in case... it prevents something from breaking. I guess I just disagree with that reasoning.
Interesting distinction that rings really quite true.

Interesting but recent thread on it http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3227620
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I'm not sure what you mean by 1:1 touch detection. At least I've never noticed a problem on WP7 with touch sensitivity (my phone is a Samsung Omnia 7).

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They didn't QA the front page, either. Or, at least, the copyediting is terribly faulty.
It's worth noting that Apple spent years working on their own software tools to retain a minimal level of software parity with Windows. Macs were dismissed for years as not having the same wealth of software that PCs had, especially in the gaming world.

Nobody says that anymore.
You can test for that in a staging environment. Restarting live services doesn't help you guarantee anything, but makes it more likely that you restart some server in a specific situation you can't recover from. (you'll never guarantee that you can recover from all situations)