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One way not mentioned in the article is free co-founder matching Meetups like the ones we organize. Check out http://www.cofounderslab.com to see if one is happening in your city .
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For xplatform development on OSX & iOS tgmath OS great.

In fact clang recently added an extension to c for function overloading in a clean way.
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Being critical of the article is not the same as being critical of Ramanujan's impact. So, there isn't a need to down vote.

I am genuinely interested in knowing what Ramanujan did to "transform and reshape" 20th century mathematics.
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Careful, folks, it takes a while to transfer domains. The ones I transferred are still with Go Daddy. It's probably the same deal for wikipedia and stackoverflow.
It takes one to I know one... Google was founded by phd's not sales people- it is. Very different to hire and manage a sales force compared to an engineering team... Sales people tend to be less honest and often comeback to bit - look at groupon
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I would like to further suggest we end the use of the word "war" in contexts that do not involve mandatory conscription and the deaths of large numbers of combatants until one side totally surrenders.

I'd like to upvote that a hundred times.
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You're very welcome. I'm also a Perl5 developer and love playing with Perl6 (Rakudo) in my spare time.
Reading this makes me appreciate that my wife is also a software engineer and instantly understands things I talk about. We've been together for a long time (met near the end of college at RIT) but it's one of those life perks that I take for granted sometimes because I forget that it's definitely not the norm.
Cool for you (really). For me, that's worse than multi-tasking. It's muddy-tasking. :)

But I tend to max every window I open, except for terminals which are set to 80 god-given columns.
There's an extension for Safari as well (submitted for approval, but here's a link in meantime): http://www.mediafire.com/?li7j7965f67ryrg

Also, I wanted to give credit to Matt Blodgett (http://www.mattblodgett.com/2009/07/rotten-tomatoes-netflix-...). He had the closest thing to what I was looking for (in that case it was a greasemonkey script that is a bit outdated). I re-used the portion of his code that translates movie names from Netflix, to the corresponding RT URL.
I'm unsure about the House, but there are a handful of states (Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington, Wisconsin) that have state laws allowing for the recall of their US Senators. It's been attempted a few times, but it has never succeeded.

EDIT: I found that list of states here, but I actually don't know now how accurate it might be: http://www.ehow.com/how_2096900_recall-us-senator.html
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Here in Denver, we have medicinal marijuana dispensaries literally all over town. Off the top of my head, I can think of dispensaries that share parking lots with typical brick and mortar stores like Pet Smart, Target, etc. There are also a few right in the middle of downtown Denver. They're even starting to employ sign spinners that stand outside and wave a cardboard sign for $8 an hour that says "$35 8ths", etc.

Aside from the occasional completely irrational commenter on DenverPost.com, most folks around here just don't give two shits about these dispensaries. Crime rates at these shops (as well as their warehouses where they grow their product) are lower than that of banks and pharmacies. Their security and ID-checking measures are all taken very seriously, you simply never hear about them letting in underage kids or folks without medicinal permits. All of the irrational fears of "dispensaries ruining neighborhoods" or "dispensaries selling marijuana to underage kids" simply have not materialized.

In regards to your question - most of these shops are owned by "sane, enterprising individuals" and not creepy street dealers. The culture of marijuana around here is NOTHING like it was back in the midwest. There is no paranoia, fear, or any of those weird dynamics that surround marijuana in non medicinal states -- people simply don't care. Smoke it if you want, get a medicinal card if you need it, but just keep it to yourself and there will be no problems.

THIS is how we defeat the war on drugs. There are people that will say medicinal marijuana laws are just a backdoor effort for full legalization .... and they're right. With decades of brainwashing from our very own government, it's going to take time and patience to change public opinion of marijuana. The best way to do this is to regulate the production and distribution of this plant (Colorado has some of the most progressive and proactive medicinal laws in the country, much more than even California) and to slowly expose the general population to it.

Ending the war on drugs isn't going to happen over night but we are certainly beginning to move in the right direction.
Generally the committees that design these kinds of things are knowledgeable and careful, so think carefully before accusing them.

In the above case, I wonder if it's related to

#define NULL ...something that is a null pointer constant...

and then wanting expressions like

test ? some_double_pointer : NULL
test ? NULL : some_int_pointer

to have the type one would "expect" rather than whatever type NULL has in isolation.
Who decides what's "clear"? And what would you have the punishment be, exactly? And who gets to decide which of the minimum 269 individuals had the necessary mens rea? And do you really want to criminalize people having different opinions on what is Constitutional?

Are you prepared to start punishing voters who approve state referendums that are held unconstitutional? Why not?
Yes. I just gave the information since the interview is incomplete without it.
Are there really people on HN who do not know how to use whois?
States have a lot of laws on the books that can't be enforced, that's not really relevant to my point.
Even if bandwidth is the only cost to you, it doesn't mean that client CPU usage by JavaScript can be safely ignored, as it can create a less than optimal experience for customers.
Anything that can be made from a hydrocarbon can be made from a carbohydrate. If hemp got the same subsidies, protections and considerations from the government that petroleum does, I suspect it would be cheaper than petroleum in the long run.

Popular Mechanics was touting hemp in 1938:

http://www.globalhemp.com/1938/02/new-billion-dollar-crop.ht...
Winning, man. I see you as the Charlie Sheen of startup guys.
Why, because you don't believe there are businesses with values that trump profit?
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"Now you have two problems" is a common meme used to talk about a lot of computer programming decisions. It appears to be originally meant as a comment on regular expressions.

http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247
No, it's not. Adding a new built-in type that doesn't participate in type-checking in any meaningful way just clutters the language. _Bool is like int, just having unspecified size and slower, since the compiler has to ensure that it shall contain etiher 0 or 1.

Very little, if anything, would have been lost by standardizing "typedef unsigned bool;"
Making decisions is active.

Spotting trends is passive.

They complement each other, like a feedback loop.
The first thing I thought of after the suit + tie was that he was dressing the part and trying to distinguish from being 'one of the gang' which could lead to problems down the road (which is why some companies won't let a co-worker become the new boss, they'll transfer someone new in).

Then I got to the second part which led me to think that he got dropped into a position that he has no earthly idea on how to do and is just struggling to try to maintain a position of authority and get some sort of hold on your team, who appears (to him) to be subverting him. How can you manage if no one will let you manage? While you could see there's some solutions to that, it's difficult to see when you're the one in the fire. The hard work emails could simply be a (potentially failed) attempt at positive reinforcement. From your perspective he doesn't do anything, but perhaps it's because you're unaware of what he does, either because you're unfamiliar with the responsibilities or he doesn't broadcast it.

Or he could be a PHB in the making and it's exactly what you're thinking.

In either case, you've got a few options.

1) Direct feedback. In a 1 on 1 meet with him and figure out what it is that he does, give him some positive feedback on what he does, some negative feedback. This feedback could also be anonymous (depending on the size of your team and how well he knows writing styles)

2) Is it possible to go to the next person up on the totem pole and give your feedback? This could protect you from a confrontation and yet still convey the information.

3) Perhaps he should work with a mentor in the company to learn from someone more experienced? There's a few ways to arrange this depending on your relationships in the company, but either asking him about his mentor (which should cause him to think about getting one if he doesn't have one), or asking someone else to become his mentor, or asking his boss to assign him one to get him brought up to speed.

The goal shouldn't be to nail the guy to the wall but instead work with him to improve the team. I've worked with a guy who was a "C" employee in one position, but more "B" in another. This transfer could be his chance to be a more productive member of the team.
You'll probably only get half of the good effects that the Portuguese system will, you're only doing half the job.
My US address can't be found. I live on a major metropolitan regional grid system.
Why is file size incorrect for files being written to on windows?
Make sure not to confuse "non-passionate" geeks with those who have multiple interests.

Keep an open mind to other things besides "programming & stuff".
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Once again, a non-US news site breaks the news that Lieberman wants to censor news for the USA.

What does this say about the USA news sites? Nothing good, it just seems to confirm the "we're already self-censoring" suspicions that a lot of people already have about US news media.

It also says a lot about Lieberman. It says he failed his civics classes in high school, for one thing. He also seems to have a low, low opinion of the American public itself, inf effect saying that the American public can't be trusted to sort out good info from bad.
I was upset by this statement which assumes a priori that the article must be overstating his impact.

Maybe it is just me, but overstating anyone's impact to this extent is disrespectful to that person.

I don't claim that the article is not overstating Ramanujam's impact, but you seemed to be arguing that there's no way this could be true, so the article must be overstating his impact. Given that even you don't claim to have the background required to objectively evaluate Ramanujam's impact, this seemed to be a prejudiced comment.

In retrospect, I might have been a bit trigger-happy with the downvote. Sorry about that.
Each of the following words opens up the door for semantic debate:
"Maximizing" - when? In the short term or long term?
"Shareholder" - who? People who own actual shares or the broader definition of stakeholders who have a vested interest in the company (employees, the community around the business, owners, etc.)?
"Value" - what? Dollar value? Happiness? Customer satisfaction? Employee satisfaction?
The ideal, of course, is that the voters will remove offending Senators via the ballot box. This is a problem when said ballot is years away. There should, imo, be procedures for recall for all elected officials.
Tried one; I'm not. I do; thanks.
Yet another way to fuel Democrats and White House's never ending spending spree!
India orders Net firms to censor themselves
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It's poetic. It's like walking into a room filled with mirrors.
We're building a WordPress plugin that allows individuals to crowdfund for their own projects - http://ignitiondeck.com

We're still in beta, so the software is not perfect, but it's off to a good start.

We've had a LOT of people ask us to support MU, but we're not really interested in that customer base, at least until we get phase 1 finished.
I don't think there's any reason to believe they can't have their own rules in this regard - especially since senators in particular represent the state itself and the United States is (was?) a federation of the states, therefore the states technically have (had?) the power over the feds and not the other way around. Sending representatives from each state is (or should be) the state's privilege and should not elevate them to king-hood over the very state they are supposed to represent the interests of.

Of course.. it's never been tested because a recall attempt of a US Senator in any state that allows for it has never progressed to the point where it'd have to have been implemented and so it may ultimately be illegal if the supreme courts says it is. However states have a certain right to withdraw from the union as a whole because of disputes like this because the union itself exists at the request of the member states themselves. We at least know that has been tried, but it didn't go very well...
Well, he did say this:

> Nothing will change without emphasis on science, and this is true all across Latin America – actually, Chile is even in better shape than other Latin American countries. Do you know how many Brazilians have received a Nobel Prize? Zero. Compare that with Israel, and you’ll see the difference: education.

But I agree with you, I don't think one investor giving up on Chile means anything definitive about the country's potential.
The thing that I've used comviz/compositing for is multiple desktops and Firefox; it used to be that redrawing anything in Firefox was about a 2-second operation and by far the most painful part of desktop switching. Compositing means I'm not redrawing, just shifting it in.

Other than that... it's neat, it's nifty, but when you get right down to it it's still pretty much a parlor trick. I'm yet to see a really critical use case that it meets. If Firefox gets to the point where the redraw pain isn't there for me I'd shut it off entirely.
The probability of at least one of your supposed "outright lies" being factually true approaches 1. Propaganda isn't a descriptive term, it's a slur.
Please call it the "fewer women in tech" thing. I know you intend "no women in tech" as hyperbole, but it makes some women feel erased (not to mention erasing important history), and I know that's not your goal!
Without the war on drugs this would happen:

1. Half the law enforcement, out of the job.

2. Half the lawyers and the judges, out of the job.

3. Half the privatized prison system, out of the job.

4. A few million other jobs that support and/or depend on the above, done away with.

It's pointless to even try this in the USA... No one is going to be willing to give up the ongoing and ever-giving spoils of the war on drugs.
Ah grasshopper, much to learn you have. :-)

Seriously, don't sweat this. While your logic is completely valid, one thing I've learned in personal relationships is that logic is, in-and-of-itself, rather useless in determining relationship success.

Unless you're a robot, people come with things like emotions and feelings and all kinds of other baggage that are impervious to logic. Not just your partner, but yourself. And you usually don't realize it until later.

Your expectations about spending time with someone who shares your passion isn't unrealistic at all. But in the end, a relationship is about people, not your passion. You may find a partner because of your passion, but he/she will stick around because of who you are -- not what you do.
I agree with the overall viewpoint of the article, so just adding an observation on how we got here. Tying management compensation to shareholder value is a good idea; the problem is in the measurement of shareholder value. If the public markets were efficient, and market cap was an accurate reflection of value, the system would not be as broken as it is.
The public markets have become a casino, where investors are often playing a game, not investing in companies they truly understand, and whose value they have analyzed. Market cap is no longer strongly correlated with company performance (revenue, net income, cash flow, customers, etc).

A return to a rational market would realign incentives, and stock-based compensation would work, but that's a lot to ask...
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What you suggest not to call a "war" has killed thousands of people in countries like Mexico and Colombia[1]. Is this what you mean when you say "deaths of large numbers of combatants"?

I come from a country that suffers this "war on drugs", I've had members of my family kidnapped, I've seen people being assassinated in front of me by hit-men. Some others haven't been that lucky.

I, with you permission, call this a "war".

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Drug_War
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I don't know if he's being too harsh on himself or not, but this kind of public apology feels like a good thing to me.

It's a bit of a clean-slate. A great starting point for fixing the problems.

Too many people are quick to be defensive, slow to admit problems and slower to apologise.
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Congratulations for getting this out in front of people. Good luck. I'll be checking it out.
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You need a second constraint. The shareholders have to care about long-term value. Many institutional shareholders don't care and have no incentives to care about long term value. To them, firms are not long term investments - they are merely symbols moving up and down on a price chart. If your symbol moves down too often, they'll pull money out of your firm, even when those gyrations are being caused by forces completely outside your control (natural disasters, or sector-wide trends).
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It's unfortunate that Skype got sold to a U.S. company. Before that, someone asked Skype's CEO about compliance with U.S. wiretap law, and he said "What do I care about that? We're not American."
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Do you have actual facts to support your statements that you can reference? It's fine to make a case for one side or the other but I find it really doesn't help either side if we just make up facts because it takes time to sort them all out.
I do not think that anyone can dispute that not sharing your SO's passions on some level is not a good thing. Over simplifying the comment with outliers does not negate the validity of the comment. If you are with someone that is the most awesome person in the world and the fact that they do not share your central passion can be over looked you are not the norm you are the unusual and as th OP said consider your self very lucky. Although, if people were completely objective most would admit that it would be better if their SO did share their passions, regardless of how good there relationship is now.
Also worth noting is Charlton's political agenda: self-proclaimed reactionary Christian, with a self-published book about the evils of political correctness. (Note his drive-by on anthropogenic climate change in the first couple of paragraphs, as he's warming to his topic ...)

In view of this background, I tend to discount his public pronouncements as increasingly eccentric axe-grinding.
I find it amusing that godaddy.com is the second most searched for domain.
Attack GoDaddy - better than a boycott
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C95* + POSIX

Imagine if da Vinci couldn't stop himself from painting the Mona Lisa and decided to add a little of her endearing facial hair there under the lip.

* C89 + Amendment 1 (and, as usual, try really hard to stay out of the way of the Sasquatch sized footprints being added by the "new and improved standards.")
The article states that they did the switch because Google asked for too much money - a very good reason to move items to the top of the TODO list.

So while the "noble" reasons were there, they probably had enough other things to do (those that make money directly). And thus the new Google Maps pricing actually was the catalyst.
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Browsers still have to interpret the JS—I'd wager that in these situation performance (especially on less optimised JS engines) is CPU bound, not IO bound
"""No, it's not. Adding a new built-in type that doesn't participate in type-checking in any meaningful way just clutters the language."""

1) It's not about type-checking, it's about reading code.

2) It's not like type-checking is C's strong point.
I somewhat "solved" this problem by marrying a designer. She might not be the one I geek out about code with, but she sure as hell understands and forgives long hours in front of the computer and appreciates when the final product performs well, looks beautiful and is easy to use.

At the end of the day I didn't marry her because of that though. If sharing a single passion would be the key to a successful marriage, I think we'd see whole lot less divorces and many more same-sex marriages.
OpenStreetMap does not work in my city and I live in a very large US metropolis.
If the public markets were efficient, and market cap was an accurate reflection of value, the system would not be as broken as it is.

If you believe the public markets are not efficient, how long will it be before you are rich?
Actually with mapstraction v2 you load only the libraries you need by default.
The problem with this article (like so many others about China) is that it conflates the entirety of China with two cities: Shanghai and Beijing. The vast majority of Chinese live outside these two cities, and the cities themselves are significantly more modern and Western-oriented than other cities or the Chinese countryside.

Taking attitudes in these cities to be representative of attitudes in China as a whole is equivalent to taking the attitudes of Washingtonians, Los Angelenos and San Franciscans and using them to approximate attitudes of Americans.