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He spent a substantial amount of time talking about his motivation to become a programmer. The other jobs he worked at, etc. Then once it comes to how he actually did it, he drops the ball and misses a great opportunity to tell an interesting story. I don't think anyone is asking for a day-by-day or hour-by-hour recap, or a step-by-step tutorial, but he could have done a much better job with adding some more substance there. I actually liked a lot of the article, but I thought it was a missed opportunity overall.
I think this comment would be more useful if you pointed out what you found fault with in his argument.
Advertising not only influences content, it influences the perception of content. If you see a "Wikipedia is brought to you today by McDonalds..." banner and then read the entry on McDonalds, a presumably intelligent reader without extensive knowledge of the inner workings of Wikipedia might wonder if there's some kind of editorial influence on the content.
Right... but PostgreSQL does that as well, so it really isn't relevant to a PostgreSQL vs. MySQL comment, which is what I was responding to. ;P PostgreSQL and InnoDB have the exact same constraints and tradeoffs with respect to count() performance, AFAIK.

(That said, an index doesn't make this magically faster... the fast performance that people credit MyISAM with is that asking for the total number of rows in a table was O(1), as its lack of intricate transaction concurrency allowed it to just keep a global counter; one which of course was difficult and costly to repair after an unclean outage. In comparison, that indexes can optimize a count() over a where is obvious and true of any sane database engine, whether it be PostgreSQL or any of the common MySQL backends.)
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This actually lets you see people who've answered those questions privately. I've used it to snoop on personal questions that not everybody wants broadcast.
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I "learned" Clipper and QBasic when I was 10. I can't write a single line in either today, but I'm 100% sure that experience made it a lot easier for me to become a developer. It's like riding a bike.

Knowing what a for loop is already puts you miles ahead of the pack. It implies knowledge of variables, counters, operators, etc. We take many concepts for granted that are not that obvious to most.
Different browsers don't run code the same way, that's part of implementation, but the same browser should run the same code the same way. It's nearly the definition of computation to be predictable.

Similar to law, that's like leaving something purposely ambiguous and letting the courts sort it out later and get more specific. But with computers, that's nearly impossible and wouldn't produce usable software You can't just write some code intended to run in the browser, and release it and expect the browser to do something sane, reasonable, desired, or even logical after the fact. The testing for intended results needs to happen before the code is released and is "used".
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How many of them are they going to put online?
This works with any git repo. I've been using it with my personal git repos on my own server since the first release.
Not sure which would be less annoying - a few Adsense links clearly marked and off on the side, or the ginormous banner and somewhat overwrought copy.
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But you know as well as anybody that quite often in AfD notability is firmly established and an overzealous WP nerd will just simply ignore it because they feel the need to protect the electrons they believe have come to serve them in their virtual fiefdom.

And to be clear we're not talking about cases of obvious vandalism, there's plenty of cases where perfectly WP conformant edits are made, marked for deletion and then the inevitable shit fight where sources are provided clearly establishing notability are provided only to be tossed aside.

If a reason for ignoring the provided evidence is given it almost always surrounds the following terms in the sentence you quoted:

"significant", "reliable", "independent"
They have the same viable business model as public television and other charities. That reminds me, I need to donate all the charitable contributions that I've budgeted for the year soon, public television is the only one of contributions I've remembered to make this year.
The Occupiers are ahead of the Redditors, having actually bought and deployed some hardware, although that isn't saying much since both groups are writing manifestos instead of code. http://freenetworkfoundation.org/ http://mashable.com/2011/11/14/how-occupy-wall-street-is-bui...
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He has been trying to make it extremely secure and anonymous, and all communications are end-to-end encrypted. To me it sounds like the ideal protocol for protection against censorship and spying on the users.

However, I don't know how well it can be combined with a mesh network, especially one that wants to piggy back on the normal Internet, since this protocol is meant for a stand alone network. But perhaps it can be modified for that. It would probably be best to talk to the creator of the protocol about it directly and ask for his help.
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Thanks for the feedback. The skip button was intended to be a third option, but I should probably rename it to make that clearer.

I like your idea about having different sections. I'll have it ready for when people start submitting lots of video links.

Any ideas about where I could find more videos to populate the library?
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I remember reading a Quora engineer describing (on Quora of course) his decision making process in joining Quora. A key point in his decision to go with Quora was when Adam D'Angelo told him to "maximize for learning" (or something like that), meaning that he'd learn a lot more at Quora than at the larger more established tech companies that he was also considering.

Of course there's a lot to be learnt at Quora and from the great programmers who started it, but at some point the founders are no longer in control of what an engineer can learn at a startup. I was reminded of this when I recently read about the Quora engineer Tracey Chou who defected to Pinterest, which, as everyone knows, is exploding with user growth.

When a site takes off like Pinterest is, it presents challenges and opportunities for the engineer that can't be had at another start-up that isn't experiencing similar explosive growth. Most of the foundation work at Quora is in place. It experienced a brief period of rapid user growth but that quickly died off (anyone who uses Quora knows this, in spite of what the founders say) Now it seems like engineers are tweaking little design things (threaded comments, upvotes, ask to answer etc) , but as long as Quora sticks to its core purpose (answering and asking questions) then it doesn't seem like it has a lot to teach an engineer after they've learned the initial set up.

Quora lost an engineer (Tracey Chou to Pinterest) and also recently gained a couple new hires. As TechCrunch explains (http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/23/quora-gains-a-twitterfacebook-growth-expert-loses-top-engineer-to-pinterest/), both of those new hires were brought in to focus on, what else, user growth. Pinterest has it (and snagged an engineer because of it) and Quora is trying to manufacture it by bringing on some new hires to focus on it. But can you manufacture user growth? At some point it all boils down to how popular the underlying idea is, and Quora's isn't really that popular. It's most active user is one of its own hires (Marc Bodnick) who seems to spend all his time voting up other people's answers to encourage site participation. Quora is paying for its own user growth, while Pinterest's is happening in spite of itself (Pinterest is still in Beta and requires an invite) Quora will probably get a lot of traffic in the future as people search for information, but in terms of having a really large number of active users...meh. Pinterest meanwhile ...that's a site with potential.
By the way, if you do .limit() / .offset() pagination, by the time you get into really high offsets, queries will start going slow again. Mongo has to do a scan up to the document at offset that you are asking for.
Even though there are cases where it works, I think those two rules are good heuristics that are fairly predictive of article quality/bias. Most articles written by academics and businessmen on themselves, their own research projects, or their companies are just not good articles. On the other hand, articles written by someone on an area they know about but not directly their work tend to be much better.

Part of it is intent, I think. I mostly talk to academics about it, and of those who don't regularly edit Wikipedia, some, when they hear that I edit Wikipedia, do want to learn how to use it to promote their work, or a research agenda they're closely involved in. If you come at it with that mindset, it's less likely that a neutral article will result. On the other hand, if you think of an area you know a lot about but is not directly tied to your work---i.e. is not the work of yourself, your supervisor, your specific sub-sub-field, or university---then it's much more likely that you might write a not-self-interested article genuinely intended to neutrally inform people.

That shouldn't be hard for most people to do. For example, there are such wide swaths of theoretical CS not yet covered well that, if your area is theoretical CS, there's no need to start with your own research or your advisor's research or the particular corner of the world in which you're personally involved in acrimonious within-field debates. Better to start with some important foundational work that you're closely familiar with but don't have strong personal investment in promoting. When I tell that to people, many lose interest, because to them, the self-promotion was why they were interested in the first place, while writing good articles about Theoretical Computing 101 (or 201) is just work. In which case, they may not have been coming with the right intentions...
I read that Xerox did this between two of their buildings many years ago. Apparently it ran across some portion of a motorway and they had to turn if off occassionally. I've forgotten where I read this. Maybe someone else knows the full story.
There are simply way to many forms and inputs we have to deal with on Wikipedia to make it a one off for every case. We eat our dog food all over wikipedia for that reason.

Personal user styles and javascripts are even stored as wiki-pages. We use Wikipages as IPC for bots and users. We use Wikipages for user messaging. I mean it's everywhere. User's get used to it and can figure out wikisyntax through the site and it's easy.

For it to get added as a special page, it has rise to a general enough thing to be needed by everyone using Mediawiki or something so pressing that could never or should never be on a Wikipage. Meta concepts usually only fit that (like permissions and stats and new page reviewing).
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ye but the mistake I made was to take his reputation and have a pre-conception about his abilities to the point where I almost didn't test him on anything.

he also fell apart in the code test, which was pretty simple (using a library I had written, which he made a copy of and edited). I have no idea how this guy got his reputation, but it seemed to be more amongst non-tech tech people, if you know what I mean (who are easier to bullshit, I guess)

when I started my career I worked with a bunch of old IBM mainframe guys who had no idea about modern web stuff but were some of the best programmers I have ever met. I could take a problem to them in a language they didn't know (so for eg. VB.NET) and they would talk me through it.
This is pretty cool. I like http://www.shortform.com/. You can browse by keyword then press Play, Pause, Next, and Previous. It's great for people who want to stumble on videos for some time.
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Great comment, some forward thinking publications are already doing this on their own sites like the Boston Globe, which has a new $0.99/mo plan to read their content. Sounds reasonable to me, and having a platform for multiple mags and other content providers to all do this sounds like a good plan. Incidentally Boston Globe also has a great new redesign that is responsive and provides a great experience for the user, check it out.
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The idea behind Wikipedia is to be made by users. With our time, and our money. It's good to know that it doesn't just run with content from other users like me (and mine), but also their money (and mine).
Agreed, the condescension is nauseating. It's extremely rude to tell someone who writes software as a day job and who is so enthusiastic about it that he is not a real programmer. Sure, he's closer to the beginning than the end of his journey as a programmer, but so what? He jumped in head-first, and just wanted to share that joy. I have to take a break from HN. Sometimes this community is a real downer.
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Interestingly, you can make MySQL counts faster with something like:

WHERE id > 0

For some reason counting with that is a lot faster (from my testing) to just a straight count
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They could probably get a small income by taking personal message ads, for example, a small blurb in honor of someone's late father or congratulating a friend on the birth of a child.

Charge, say, $50 or $100 to reduce nuisance ads and pranks. Careful design of a form for purchasing these ads, rather than using freeform text, would help cut down on the potential for controversy over content.

These would be non-commercial, so that wouldn't be an issue. They'd be small, so any one ad buyer would be unlikely to wield much influence. Most ads would have little or nothing to do with any content in Wikipedia, so skewing of related pages shouldn't be an issue.
I don't think the presence of advertising makes Wikipedia any more subject to the influence of commercial institutions.

How exactly do you 'put a little pressure on Wikipedia' as an advertiser? It's a hive of independent contributors who, overwhelmingly, draw no money from the Foundation. Very few care at all about advertiser-friendliness.

Any communication to any particular editor suggesting warmer-treatment-for-money risks a big backlash, and provides little assurance of warmer coverage.

On the other hand, even without advertising, big interests can and do try to massage their Wikipedia entries indirectly. If they have a legal case against content, they can and do threaten legal action – again, no advertising link required.

There may be good reasons for excluding advertising. Since an important core of contributors hate the idea advertising, simply keeping them happy may be a good enough reason, and as long as annual donation drives generate plenty of money, why not?

But I don't see where advertising would add new motivations or mechanisms for commercial entities to meddle in article content, especially if proper care were taken to separate and automate ad functions.
Don't get me started about the time I engaged in a revision war with the crazies over the Serial (Oxford) Comma. The Wikipedia page still has an "example" of where the Serial Comma "leads to ambiguity", but which is grammatically incorrect. All I was asking for was a single grammatically proper example to back up the extraordinary claim that the anti-serial-comma folks were making. They couldn't provide it but why does that matter when the revert button is so easy to press?
Textbook-type knowledge of programming (and more specifically, data structures and algorithms) are not all that's required to be successful in this industry, but it's sure a hell of a lot more important than 1% of the whole puzzle.

I can't say much about 12-weeks-programmer guy, but if the only skill that 12-weeks-programmer guy has is the programming skills he's obtained in those 12 weeks and the only skills 10-years-of-pounding-CS-books guy has are the skills he's obtained from those books, I'm going to pick the guys that's been reading all about automata theory to be more successful.

Not that I'm saying that the author is destined to be unsuccessful. I'm just trying to point out that classical CS skills are more important than you're portraying.
Editors are specifically expected not to do that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research

Wikipedia does not want to be a primary source. That's what Sullivan seems to have overlooked about why subject matter experts' opinions are not eagerly included—they haven't yet been vetted by any third party. Notability is defended by bringing citations, not complaints.
What's wrong with using median in this instance?

Other than knocking off a few obvious outliers: Mssrs. Gates, Jobs, Ellison, and Zuckerberg, I believe.
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A popular band can, if there are good sources for the information. Regardless of what other policy exists, having written a number of band articles, I've found that to be more or less the one de-facto rule: cite thy sources, preferably to sources that seem relatively legit (musicological books or journal articles good; newspapers and magazines ok; the band's own website ok but not as the only source; "personal communication" not so good). Overall I think that makes sense, because it's the only real way of verifying that it's not just fans writing impossible-to-verify opinion or lore. Plus, Wikipedia is supposed to be a tertiary source that compiles secondary sources, which doesn't make any sense if there aren't secondary sources.

Whenever I've written articles about music groups that do have good references, I've never run into problems, even if they're obscure groups. For example, I recently wrote one on a minor 1980s punk band, with citations to the book American Hardcore (a history of 80s hardcore), which I doubt anybody would challenge. I do think there's an awkward gap around subjects that clearly should have secondary sources, but for some reason don't, because music historians and journalists have somehow neglected to write about them, or just haven't done it yet (musicology tends to lag). I can see why people get pissed off in those cases, but I do think it's basically no-win for Wikipedia, because in cases where good sources don't exist, it's not possible to produce an article up to what Wikipedia claims are its standards, a tertiary-literature article solidly referenced to the existing literature; because the problem is with the secondary literature itself being deficient (http://www.kmjn.org/notes/wikipedia_notability_verifiability...).

Nowadays I mostly do my Wikipedia-editing source-first: I find a good source or two about something, and then decide, hey, this is a good basis for a Wikipedia article. So for example, I'll pick up a book on the history of hip-hop, and use it to write articles about hip-hop musicians. Doing it that way, I have a remarkably laid-back, trouble-free Wikipedia-editing experience. It's still theoretically possible to read some policy pages in a way that could cause me problems: there might be some minor band that I've written a well-referenced article on, but is somehow still "too minor" to deserve a Wikipedia article under the Notability policies. But in practice, those objections almost never come up in the case of well-referenced articles; I think Verifiability basically trumps Notability these days, and that the deletionists who argued for a more strongly curated encyclopedia have lost that battle.
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On a related note, skip(n) is also O(n) so the farther you paginate the slower it gets.
Actually, I'm seeing that MySQL uses any index available to do count([asterisk]), even if there isn't a where clause. For example, I just ran the following queries on a WordPress database:

[1] select count(object_id) from wp_term_relationships force index(PRIMARY);

[2] select count([asterisk]) from wp_term_relationships

[3] select count([asterisk]) from wp_posts

... all of which produce execution plans that show indexes are being used to perform the count() query. All tables are using InnoDB.

Off topic question: how do you escape an asterisk when entering a reply so that it shows w/in the thread vs. italicizing text?
So if someone types "child por" in, should Google autocomplete if a common request is "child porn"?

Also, don't call the guy's argument lame, just answer it. Be civil.