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The Irish are probably not going to be too upset that companies are taking advantage of the system that they setup in order to attract large companies and the associated financial/legal industry. It's not a case of big companies exploiting the poor Irish.
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I would go even further: zero out corporate income tax, and raise taxes on the individual owners and lenders to make the change revenue neutral. This would do much to increase long-term economic growth by allowing managers to focus on creating value rather than playing tax arbitrage games. We would also be able to shift a lot of tax accountants to more productive work, and downsize the IRS.
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just thought I'd link the reply provided in the other thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3203887
Basically said the blame for that wasn't on Mongo.
K&R is awesome but... C would not be my first choice for a beginning language.

Things like pointer arithmetic, memory allocation, etc. distract from the basics and high-level concepts.

I would start with Python or Ruby these days. If Python is good enough for intros at places like MIT, it's good enough for me.

C is a masterpiece of elegance and simplicity and gives you a mental model of how a real computer works, and it gives you a foundation for understanding Unix, but I just think it overloads a beginner with stuff that gets in the way.

came to comments expecting a lot of reasons why Scheme or Lisp was a better choice LOL
"Indeed, the idea of patents on software alarmed Bill Gates, who wrote in 1991 (when Microsoft was already older than Google is now) that "the industry would be at a complete standstill" if software had been eligible for patent protection in the early days of the industry."

So now we have software patents. Is the industry now at a complete standstill? Or from the other direction, what would the industry look like now, if there software patents hadn't been allowed.

Or to ask in yet another slightly different way: what are we missing now, what's been taken away from us, because of software patents?
Schemaless also dispenses with the ability to declare what correct data is in the schema. For critical apps that's a high caliber footgun. For critical apps that have to integrate with eachother, it's a nice piece of artillery aimed squarely at your foot.
Well, www.strobecorp.com is also down. I heard that wycats had left Strobe (unconfirmed), so hopefully nothing serious is going on...
Why not make them start in machine language, I mean since they need to learn how everything works before they can program in the language they choose right? I find it somewhat funny that C and C++ are the default "starting point" languages to learn programming when there are still lower-level languages than these. I see no problem with starting out at a higher level language and going from there, part of programming is having enthusiasm and being able to play around. By starting with easier languages, a person's interest may better be captured and can lead to more self-learning, the way I see it, the natural progression is to want to learn the harder, lower-level stuff as you move along in a development career anyways.
Algebra is important. Knowing sum-to-product trig identities, limits to 0/0 and obscure trigonometric integral identities are not. I am not saying none of it is required, I am saying some of it is not required, and that there is an unnecessary emphasis on it.

My comparison to assembly/Python was a comparison, but of course I should have expected people to take it to an extreme hyperbole. But then, your entire argument is based on the assumption that most people are not interested in mathematics, so I guess circular logic is totally fine in these arguments (and hilariously ironic).

No really, let's look at this. I'm saying that teaching high level math alongside low level math (or at least putting less emphasis on low level math) will make more people interested in math. You're saying this won't work because people aren't interested in math. That doesn't work.
And she actually sings about the time, when you could find Ron Paul posts on Digg. That feels like a century ago.
Thank you for your comments in this whole thread, tptacek.
I'm pretty sure this is the only way: http://abstrusegoose.com/249
You are exactly describing Amazon Mechanical Turk.
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I feel the same way, you can still write decent code without knowing all the nitty gritty deep-down details, I'm a firm believer in learning as much as possible about lower-level, Eventually.. but its often a case of Too Much Information for someone starting out and, with Java, for example, it does garbage collection for you, so as long as you learn some basic patterns of use, the code shouldn't become overly maintainable. If they're using C# or Java, I'm pretty sure its not some mission critical app that has to be uber fast or the wheels will fall off of the company's entire operations
I'm a bright person, and I learned to program in 6 months with only "programming" experience being Excel VBA scripts.

Joel's method would have made me drop out and convinced me that programming was terribly boring-- much like a how a kid who wants to play the piano would feel after starting out on 6-months of only scales.

I learned so quickly because I loved it, and I loved it because I could be instantly productive making apps with Ruby on Rails. There was still a lot to learn, but those things could be learned later "in the field" as they were relevant.
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thought this was a horrible idea for all the same reasons stated, until i saw the video. If it really works like advertised(being able to rest my fingers on home screen, quick removal/magnetic alignment) this'll be the first accessory i get when i get my ipad.
A compelling article. I'd love to see open-source textbooks on github/bitbucket to be built to html/pdf and easily portable to kindle/ipad, etc, etc. The ability for students to submit bugs and patches would be awesome and empowering for them.
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As an aside, what has stopped us from sending more probes? Do we simply have all the data we need? It seems like cost should not be an issue, as something like the Voyager re-made with modern technology would be cheap to develop and even cheaper to manufacture.
wow, i disagree! i can't even imagine starting with C. that's like saying the only way to learn to build with legos is to learn how to mold plastic first. sure it's possible, but desirable?
Yea. We got rejected for a location-based social network (nvador) on the last go round. Think foursquare for events/things to do.

It gave me and my partner motivation to work on a new project & prove YC wrong (http://thenstimes.com). Building a platform to make searching news with social media more feasible.
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Look at it from the employer's perspective: in professional and technical occupations a half time worker isn't much cheaper than a full time worker due to benefits, training, administrative overhead, office space, PCs, etc.
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I don't want to go into details, but I recently got in an argument about whether or not someone could live off of $20,700 without going hungry. I believe that it is possible (heck, my family of 4 does that right now), but I'd like some stats to back me up.

What are the costs of living? If income is $20,700 a year, how much of it is left after taxes? How much would you have to spend on food every week? Rent (assuming an urban area like New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, etc.)? Other necessities?

So I guess the main question is, is $20,700 a year enough for one person?

I think the answer to this question could be beneficial to anyone looking to cut costs while starting a startup as well.
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This post strikes me as absurd and offensive. First of all, the author comes off as exceedingly arrogant. That aside, there is an implicit judgment made in the post that STEM subjects are inherently more intellectual, more legitimate, and more important than social fields and issues like feminism.

Unfortunately, having glanced at a few other posts on that blog, I feel like the world would be a better place if the author had studied something like sociology.
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I want to work on challenging problems that have a real world impact. Right now, I personally thinking that building distributed data infrastructure is such a problem. If I were to start or join a small web/business software startup chances are I'd never actually get to solve this problem: I know I'll never be happy if I'm not solving what I think is the most fascinating problem I have the aptitude to solve. I've left companies in the past for this reason and (as pg had said a number of times) lack of determination to succeed is more important than raw intelligence.

I could start a systems startup, but having worked for such a company in the past, I know I don't want to start one, especially at this stage in my career: finding funding (this isn't something you can bootstrap), customer support, doing business development (to find a sales channel) and/or sales/marketing (the sales model is not self-serve) would be what I'd spend huge portions most of my time on. Note how that list doesn't include "solving actual technical problems" -- doing something I love would only be a minority of my time. Nor would I have access to true scalability challenges (i.e., to envision scenarios that my customers would encounter further down the line) like I do at my current employer.

Might I do a startup one day? Sure, if it's the best way for me to solve the problems that I find meaningful and interesting. As for the money? Not really a motivating factor, plus statistically it's just not likely that I'll make more as an entrepreneur than as a software engineer.
Sure, but how many people are going to be able to make a living on Hamburger ebooks? I don't think it's that hard to supplement your income a bit like this but I don't see this kind of thing compensating for many lost full-time jobs.
Frankly, I think you're out of touch. I don't have a trust fund, and I acknowledge that there are people to whom my statements do not apply. I pretty explicitly said I was talking about the common case, which is not "unemployed and looking for a $10/hour job." You are talking about a very specific situation which is much poorer than average, statistically speaking.

Anyway, though, I suggested that $5000 car (which is a once-a-decade splurge) as a convenience. I explicitly said that. Many people, including me, have made do with public transportation or lousy cars (at a $10/hour job, yes — this is from experience). I still maintain that there are much cheaper options than the "plasma TV, high-speed Internet, cell service" lifestyle that was under discussion here. For example, you definitely don't need TV, and if you're looking fo a job and really need a phone, you can get a prepaid one for like $10 without committing to an expensive plan.

And it is simply not my experience, nor that of anyone I know (who range from unemployed to poorly employed to very gainfully employed) that hiring managers will not wait a few minutes for you to call back. Has that actually happened to you a lot? I believe it happens sometimes, but again, I don't believe that is the common case.

If you really work for somebody that horrible for $9.10 an hour, I would urge you to seek alternative employment at someplace like Subway, Albertsons or Starbucks, where they have similar compensation and in my experience they tend to treat people better than that.

Also — and I mean this sincerely, not to be snarky — I would suggest you look at how you approach people, because frankly you come across as rather hostile and negative. I understand you find your situation frustrating, but you need to try to stay positive. That will impact your chances of landing a job much more severely than your ability to answer an email within 30 seconds of it being sent.

Anyway, best of luck to you, whether you agree or not.
I respect the particulars of your situation but it is not standard.

I own a manufacturing company with >100 employees, a mix of manufacturing and office/service jobs, and I don't expect answers from home from anyone except a couple top execs and the sales team, who are all based out of their home anyway and have company provided smartphones.

According to benchmarking data our company is not lavish, pays competitive wages but not way over the market, and has good productivity numbers.
Thanks OP for getting it right. It's Daylight Saving Time. Not savings. As with labor-saving device, daylight-saving time.
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Lets just have a referendum on abolishing DST. We can certainly do that in California. Arizona does't have it, so we should be able to dump it. Maybe that will be the beginning of the end.
This is beyond scope..

..or to put it more bluntly: this is not appropriate for HN.
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I agree. As long as you can afford to. But even when you think you can't afford to, you're probably better off firing the client that gives you to much trouble.

As for having a startup with investors, if the fun isn't there anymore you always have the option of walking away.

Walking away isn't for everyone, though. Getting to the point where it's an option in your arsenal, having the confidence and experience of knowing you'll find something else to make a living by yourself is what separate entrepreneurs and employees.
The only well-known language worse than C to start with would be C++. We used this in high school AP Computer Science before they switched to Java. Spent about 80% of our time learning pass by reference, templates, and about segfaults. The other 20% was on algorithms. Made programming seem horribly complex.
Sorry for the late reply (didn't see the question until now). The DCEVM is just a patched version of the JVM dll/so file that allows the normal hotswap mechanism (triggered by JVMTI) to accept arbitrary class changes, rather than just method body changes. There's no additional mechanism or API, it just makes the already-existing mechanism for hotswapping better. To install it, you just run the installer jar and point it to your jdk. To use it, you just trigger a hotswap as you normally would, which generally means starting your program in debug mode via an IDE, and having the IDE automatically swap changes for you as classes change locally. If you want to do hotswapping without the IDE, that's a bit trickier. Technically, you can write your own JNI code to directly hook into JVMTI and trigger a hotswap (which is what we actually do with our development platform at Guidewire), but the easiest way to do it is generally just to use the debug capabilities of the IDE.
They'll adapt alright, but remember that the goal of the adaptation is to provide for themselves a quality of life that is comparable to that of their peers, not necessarily to contribute to society in a way that you would find useful. That is, they're just as likely to kill you in a riot and take your things, as they are to commit to a few years of school in their late thirties or forties.

People are not rational actors.

In a sense libertarian ideals are quite virtuous and moral depending on your values, but they're terribly impractical. They take as many liberties with human nature as does pure communism.
I understand the gravitation for languages that compile to javascript, but personally I've really come to enjoy programming JS. One thing that I don't really get is the fact that most compile-to-js languages are seemingly just switching out the syntax and not actually improving what can be done with the language.

The only useful (as in, I would actually use it) project I've come across in this realm is parenscript (http://common-lisp.net/project/parenscript/) which compiles a variant of lisp into javascript. It seems to me the best way to go from language X to JS is to make sure X is actually a better language. From my (admittedly small) experience with CoffeeScript, I haven't really seen much of the benefit, and I tend to NOT like CS syntax. Also, javascript is a superbly powerful language in my experience, and trying to replace it would take some real thought and work.

It seems to me that taking an extremely powerful (and terse) language and compiling it to javascript would be more useful than switching out JS' syntax and adding a few easily-replicable features. Then again, maybe I'm just ignorant.

I don't really see what's to replace, though. JS ain't that bad.
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Maybe "top ten X's who inspired me to be an X".

This would include people who are inspired by autonomy and self-determination (read: congenitally unable to work for someone else) - the "E-Myth" claims not working for someone else is the main reason people start a business.
I know a lot of immigrant students who live in Jersey City (20 mins from NYC) for $400 a month i.e. $5K annually...
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I was referring to the read/write preponderance. Normalisation optimises write performance, storage space and also provides strong confidence of integrity. But it means lots of joins, which can slow things down on the read side.

That's why OLAP came along. Structured denormalisation, usually into star schemata, that provide fast ad-hoc querying. I think part of the enthusiasm for NoSQL arises because most university courses and introductory database books will go into normalisation in great detail, but OLAP might only get name checked. So folk can get an incomplete impression of what relational systems can do.

If I had a purely K/V data problem -- a cache, for example -- I would turn to a pure K/V toolset. Memcache, for example.

Hierarchical datasets have long been the blindside for relational systems. Representable, but usually requiring fiddly schemes. But in the last decade SQL has gotten recursive queries, so it's not as big a problem as it used to be.
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This looks pretty awesome. So is this just using Elastic Mapreduce on the backend? Can you use your existing AWS credentials for this with a Hawk surcharge on top? This looks like lots of fun to use. Can't wait.
Yes possibly, if you're able to source the income offshore and keep it away from the united states. Then you'd be able remove it easier. But, as a shareholder that owns more than 10% of the company. It effectively cancels any of the tax benefits.

There are some creative ways to remove yourself from the equation but it's pretty complicated.

Is this Brian? lol
With corporations, taxation is very complicated. The law is complicated because its tries to be sensitive to the question of who should be taxed where for what, and the facts are complicated because it's hard to find out exactly what revenues are being made and what they represent. You can always throw more enforcement at the problem, but that costs money, and your yield is uncertain because companies will just spend more money on tax lawyers to shift things around.

Taxing individuals is a lot simpler. You live in the US, you pay US taxes on all your income.

Also, I said we should stop taxing capital gains at a lower rate. There is no reason for it, and it just distorts the market, shifting activity from spending to saving.
That's really interesting to hear. Was that was only the cost of rent or did it include things like toiletries, utilities, etc?
> BTW if you want nosql-style schema flexibility within an RDBMS, then a simple solution is to store XML or JSON in in a character blob.

In all sincerity, I would strongly recommend against this. If your problem absolutely defies normalisation, don't use a relational database.
and ironically, my employer has hired at least one dim bulb from Google.
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Their previous chairman was Dr Nicholas Gruen, one of Australia's most prolific and entrepreneurial economists. He runs an economics consultancy, chaired the Gov 2.0 inquiry and has a mortgage broking business on the side (!).

He blogs at Club Troppo, one of the blogs I host: http://clubtroppo.com.au/
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I contributed based on it being an open source license; if some group decides to change that so they can make money off it, forking and keeping it free is not "cheating them" - it's keeping them from cheating me and every other dev who has helped them.
This is exactly why high taxes hurt startups. How can a startup/small business compete profit wise against Google or another large company when they are paying a much lower effective rate. Since their tax burden is so much lower they can charge a much lower price, effectively pricing any startup/competition out of the market.

We just need a super low corporate tax with zero loopholes that make it less expensive to just comply vs hiring hundreds of lawyers and accountants to move around money.
>Here’s the thing though, if you go to a bar and just sort of stand around … girls will come talk to you. In fact this will happen more than once a night.

Bullshit.

>Honestly, you don’t need to know how to dance. If you just go out there and dance like nobody’s watching. Girls will come dance with you. Tried and proven.

Bullshit.

>Be attractive, don't be creepy.

This will work. It has nothing to do with standing around or dancing, though.
Capital gains taxes are not "double taxation." If you buy an asset for $1,000, you've paid for it with $1,000 after-tax dollars and acquire $1,000 in basis on the asset. If you then sell it for $2,000, you're taxed on the $1,000 accretion in value as a capital gain, but you are not taxed again on the $1,000 which forms your basis in the asset.
How is it different from SQL?
Ancient Rome had slaves - with actual intelligence.

What can we learn from how they handled it? Our civilization already seems more similar to their's than any other.
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Cheers, I will look into that soon.
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It really does seem like auto-solving captchas has its benefits (assuming spammers already just use crowdsourcing to solve captchas). Utilizing this could open up the doors to any homebrew captchas services (such as small town university libraries) that would merely use computer-solved answers as a sort of "backup".
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