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200 years ago most be people were "unintelligent" illiterate farmers, and yet today there descendents are literate, many doing highly intelligent work.

The parent commenter was speaking about making a transition in one's own career. Like him, I have doubts about my ability to become a top-notch violinist, especially since you have to find the tone centers by ear for that instrument. I don't know of anybody ever developing perfect pitch as an adult. Similarly, I doubt my grandmother, who even now is an extremely talented cellist with perfect pitch, could ever become a good programmer.

However, her son did become an excellent programmer, I am confident that my own children could become excellent programmers, musicians, visual artists or speakers of any language... if they start as children or adolescents. Yes people can change an learn... but drastic changes rarely happen after a certain age.
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What could hit them would be a "I will not work for a company supporting SOPA" campaign - but that would be a hard sell I guess.
The only alternative to Comcast where I live is 3G, which would require giving up online gaming and streaming video. It also is not significantly cheaper than my current plan with Comcast. This isn't acceptable to me. The local telephone company (Frontier) doesn't even service my house with DSL, which is surprising considering they have two large offices within two miles. I'd love to be idealistic but I can't really justify it.
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What does the slogan mean? I read it as either "supporting SOPA means not supporting Comcast" or "yes, SOPA will result in Comcast being shut down", neither of which make any sense.
No, you don't. I work for one of the top social gaming companies around right now and programmers do specialize to a ridiculous degree. The programmers who write code for the actual game are rarely web developers. It's simply a different domain.

I can confidently say this because I'm a web developer in a studio of game developers and most of them don't even know how to run mysql locally. They aren't stupid, they could, if they spent the time to learn it. But they are much more interested in improving the efficiency of their A* pathing algorithm.
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the official links are still very, very slow to respond. These are much faster.
I don't think you have to worry much when you use a VPS. Any decent VPS provider will give you a dedicated IP address, rDNS, and the ability to change your host name. I'm pretty new to VPS but from what I understand the spam problem is really only a problem with shared hosting, especially cheap shared hosting. Even if I'm wrong I'm willing to bet if you went with a reputable provider there shouldn't be any problems.
I think this might be an overreach - the GoDaddy boycott worked because there are plenty of alternatives. For much of the country (and my hometown) Comcast may be the only game in town for cable TV and they are almost certainly the only game in town for high-speed internet. A failure to get a significant number of folks to sign on can be spun as tacit support for SOPA when it's really a lack of suitable replacement services.

If you are lucky enough to have access to Verizon FIOS, RCN, or UVerse, (or have the right terrain features to be able to have satellite TV), I envy you. I'm stuck with Comcast because I need a cable modem for my business so while I sympathize with the cause, I won't be be adding my name to the list.
When he says they live in a 'bubble', he literally means they(or we) live in a bubble isolated from issues. I'm sympathetic to OWS, but on the other hand, I come here and worry if my salary (which is X% greater than the average American's) is too low, because people on HN are making Y% more than me(or at least claiming to).

However, I'm not in the 1%. It's a little hard to fathom, but there are a handful of people at GOOG in the 1%, but we tend to act more like we(tech people, I don't work at GOOG) are the 1% than the 99%. I don't know if Schmidt is point out the divide, or oblivious. I'm hoping for the former.
Only if you pre-deposit funds with the company. They still won't charge your card each year like everyone else.

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Does this have an advantage over the full export of all your Facebook content that's been available for some time? It's not clear from the description exactly what it does.
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Well duh - I meant to say πιστιν is used as assurance not πασιν. That will teach me to be snarky at 3am...
Hume, who was certainly no religious apologetic, would differ.
Note that every one of those "average" players finished in the top 10%.

It's a hard problem to write any kind of generally adequate player for. All the good bots depend heavily on subtle properties of emergent behavior. Don't let the simple explanations fool you.
You could perhaps use it to say stuff about Haskell or ML vs. Ruby or Python, but not about Java or C++.

The particular errors Carmack talks about are all holes in the type system - they're areas where the type system of C/C++ is unsound (as in the type-theory definition, not the colloquial definition). Null pointer exceptions don't exist in Haskell, because null pointers don't exist; you have to explicitly use a Maybe type. Printf errors do (at least with Text/Printf), but there's a lot of research on dependent types to solve specifically that error.

Again, though, it's a tradeoff. Haskell lets you find a lot of errors at compile time, but the tradeoff is that you spend much more time figuring out why your program won't compile. For a lot of software, you're better off shipping with bugs than not shipping at all. Particularly for exploratory software, it makes more sense to build something that works for your demo just to see if it's useful than build something for everyone that nobody wants to use. Specs that don't meet customer needs are just as buggy as code that doesn't meet the spec.
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> [OWS is] literally an expression of incoherent rage.

You're clueless, likely intentionally so.

Many Occupy members are very coherent. If you haven't looked far enough to find one you must be getting your news from a TV.

And rage doesn't motivate Food not Bombs, or most other OWS participants and participating organizations.

But Occupy, like Anonymous, is a non-trademarked non-organization. Anyone can go, for any reason, and can say whatever they want under its auspices. You could cherry-pick anything you want.

The incoherent rage though is mostly to be found among the members of the armed forces who joined post 9-11 to go and kill well over a million people in the Afghan/Iraq/Pakistan-USA war (to date) to get revenge for something they didn't even attempt to understand. Yelling at our politicians and refusing to pay taxes is the sane response.

Not from anarchists, but from patriots who'll only support a government of the people, for the people.
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If you're in the Bay Area/California, I'd throw a strong recommendation behind Sonic.net and their great Fusion DSL service. $40/month for 20mbit DSL, $70 for 40mbit paired DSL. Plus, their support number is directly answered by human beings who live in the Bay Area.

And of course they're on the correct side of the SOPA insanity.
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I'm surprised he didn't give an economic evaluation, i.e. debugging time saved - checking time spent. He mentioned a few man-days worth of debugging that would have been prevented, but it sounds like he spent more time than that in checking. As he noted at the beginning, other factors (like features) are more important than quality (productivity is an argument for dynamically typed languages). Of course, quality is also its own reward.

BTW: dated today, but I'm sure I've read it before. Maybe a write up of the earlier episodes (e.g. /Analyze in 360 SDK).
Sure, but as he concludes at the end, I didn't want to spend too much time on it. My bot was fairly unique in that it used Monte Carlo methods rather than deterministic minimax, and it got the job done without too much effort. I wrote a forum post describing the basic approach here:
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It also happen to coincide with the CSV format supported by GoDaddy's export, so you can open the CSV using a spreadsheet, delete all columns but the domain name and EPP code, open the CSV using a text editor, and copy/paste.
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Hi, I registered because I had read this story earlier today and decided to contact Team Meat's developer and ask him a question. His response prompted me to post this here. My question is of a political nature, but you can ignore that part. The part that struck me as odd, and the part that matters for this conversation, was where he claimed nothing happened.

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-kc0f6ZQZebY/TvWDhFSHYEI/A...

Note that I sent him the tweet at exactly midnight my time. A short time later, a thread on the Steam forums was updated with:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-itY306KgvLk/TvWGR_cQkiI/A...

To give that a little context, once the details of this vulnerability were in the wild the shenanigans everyone ran on their database had affected everybody's ability to play the game. It would crash upon launch.

Anyway, he responded ~two hours later, just after that post on the Steam forums noted that the game was playable again.

Does "nothing happened" seem accurate here? And for anyone that has the skills to access that database, is it still accessible and...modifyable?
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Besides the weird age comment, I also thought it odd how an "IT engineer" (is that what guys in the IT support business are calling themselves these days?) is trotted out as a member of the "tech industry" whose life isn't joy and might identify with the OWS people. (Personally I consider the "tech industry" to be tech companies and their most important employees, aka smart CEOs, programmers, good designers, engineers, and inventors (sure I'm leaving some out). (Sometimes all being one person.)) The startup I'm at doesn't need "IT engineers", it needs "designgineers" just like almost everyone else.

Cisco laid off some thousands of people, but who were those people? Turns out mostly management. And according to the linked article about a third of them still got an early retirement.

So in general I agree with the article's main point that it's a profession bubble, not a geographical bubble, but I thought the attempts at saying "but you don't even really have a bubble from these complaints, because of layoff counts and this guy I talked to!" pretty weak.
You can use undefined, the nearest equivalent to null in Haskell, anywhere you like and it is just as bad as using null! However, typically you don't because as you point out Maybe is a better alternative.
> Look for it to be much, much better in a decade or so.

Why is that? Are there big unsolved problems or is it more of a grinding away at little things?
I'd recommend using a dedicated email provider instead of using your VPS.

I currently host http://bugmuncher.com with Linode, but use MailGun for emails, on the strength of recommendations from HN users.

This way I don't have to be worried about the spam problem, as they take care of that. And they have a free tier that will keep you going through the early stages (200 emails per day)
I raise your [citation needed]! Wikipedia suggests that cost to LEO will be at least $1000/lb, and that it can only carry 26% as much payload to Mars.

Crunching those together gives $8346/kg to Mars, though even then I'm sure that's an optimistically low calculation.

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I hadn't because I figured it'd be too long. I just looked it up and its "only" 36 pages, so I might give it a try.

According to Wikipedia its HR3261, which is here:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.3261.IH:/

Click "Text of Legislation" then "Printer Friendly".
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I'm so confused. How does GoDaddy dominate the domain market? I guess those Superbowl Dollars are in proper use...?
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I've been using Netfirms. About 30 domains over last 7 years or so. Have also used Gandi.net, 1and1.
I use Freshbooks as well, so far it's been well worth $20 / month, but if you don't have many clients/projects you can use it for free.
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Pylint is also worth a mention, though its output is rather verbose.
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I think what the GP is getting at is the chemical difference of ionic minerals (rock) vs amorphous collections of molecular compounds (i.e. water or methane ice). There is a categorical difference between the two chemically, although as an aside their properties in micro-gravity and the cold vacuum of the outer solar system are quite different from what you might have learned in your chemistry class.
Second that. Just ordered Sonic (paired) and if it will show the decent speed, Comcast goes out of the window. I'm having 50Mbit service for $99 with them, company pays. And I don't watch TV since I don't remember when, Netflix filled this niche perfectly.
Will GitHub boycott GoDaddy because of their support for SOPA?
Even if some of us aren't in the 1%, there's nevertheless this desire to get there and instead of just wishing for millions of dollars people here are actively working on earning those millions. Some of us aren't in the 1%, but a lot of us are soon-to-be or trying-to-be there. As Schmidt put it, "Young people can work hard and make a fortune." (And the 1% cutoff point is only around $300k per year; the critical issues affecting the 99% are mostly affecting the 85% below $100k.)
One is: don't use the database for this. Lock/read/write/unlock is very slow when you need a round-trip over the Internet for each phase. (Remember, with optimistic locking, many transactions are in the Lock/read state as the same time. When someone writes the new death count, all transactions in the lock/read state are rolled back and started from the beginning, as the data read is now invalid. And that's assuming MySQL is not in read uncommitted mode; then you just throw away data randomly.)

The correct way to count something in a relational database is to add a relation (row) for each event, and then COUNT them all. How do you count log message in log files; by having syslogd update a count file? Nope. wc -l.

(And no, I'm not a fan of auto-incrementing integer primary keys, because read/calculate/write is slow. Databases have ACID so that read/calculate/rewrite is safe. But that doesn't mean that type of workload is going to run fast. Of course, autoincrementing primary keys is specially optimized by most databases, so you never notice in this particular case.)
I don't disagree.

I might be mistaken about the use of the word "plausible", but I think it is not necessarily connected with evidence but with human perception. Of course rational people would only find plausible explanations that are backed with evidence, but even the most hardcore rationalists are subject to their own psychology and emotions.

My argument is that in a (completely unlike, hypothetical) scenario like the one I describe, most people would likely find plausible what that someone would claim (if it did not sound completely stupid) not because it would be the reasonable thing to do but because psychologically those acts would feel too imposing, if science could not explain them at the time.
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I often find that looking at the code hard and adding the appropriate tests and asserts can be better than immediately pulling out the debugger. Assert are continually testing your assumptions where you can only see them once in a debugging session.
Regarding Gandi:

1) They are more expensive, but not that much per domain. Meanwhile, as opposed to helping draft SOPA, take a look at what they support:

https://www.gandi.net/supports/

2) The language barrier and the time difference have made for a slight obstacle on the one or two occasions I've had to contact support in 11 years. It wasn't completely insignificant, but it never made me regret my choice.
It seems to be a confusing comparison to Big Oil or Big Pharma etc.

In other words, it's a buzzphrase coined by people who appreciate catchiness over actual meaning: the people who are a few layers removed from making important decisions and have little else to do but talk incessantly about an obvious trend.
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Which is why I prefer eu for my own stuff.
Why aren't pharma companies developing internet advertising platforms, then?

If every company did every thing that everyone else ever did successfully... I can't even finish this sentence.
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> Sun Jupiter is my argument for why a planet shouldn't be defined only by barycenter location.

But Jupiter doesn't sustain nuclear fusion so it can't be considered in the same category as the sun. If it was a red/brown dwarf, then we would be in a binary system and that'd be a different story entirely.
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Wikipedia used GoDaddy, period? I'm surprised they were able to function as they do, seriously. Not poking fun at anybody here.
He's only mega because so many people are happy. How cute!
Why is domain name supplier a community matter... does the community vet decisions on data-centres or server software?
FWIW, I have found pyflakes really useful in fixing the most common bugs I encounter in a python program (using a wrong identifier) but I haven't noticed anything deep about it (such as detecting _obvious_ AttributeErrors), does pychecker work better in this sense?
A lot of SF employers of engineers serve all three meals, or at least lunch, pay health insurance and provide public transportation subsidization too, so on that basis they're about equal. Health insurance while unemployed isn't so nice although. Owning a motor vehicle on gas cost alone is almost double so I hear.
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The godaddy boycott worked. This won't.

How do I know? Because I wouldn't be prepared to give up comcast, and I hate SOPA with every ounce of my being. I could never promise something like that.

People aren't prepared to give up their internet access (ironically to save the internet) when comcast is the only ticket in town in many places.
The employer contribution is only around 1%.
Oh, Ok. But then, there are so many different categories of products whose counterfeit is available, but I dont see others.
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D. Richard Hipp and the SQLite project have not had such a positive experience with static code analysis. They already use a massive amount of testing though. There's also no mention of commercial tools like Coverity.

See the "Static Analysis" section:
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living expenses must be either paid or borrowed from folks who are fairly insistent on being repaid

Like I said, most people have family they can move in with in an emergency. Most families, however, do not have $90k to cover a medical bill.

Also, why do you think that you know what poor people know?

1) I've been not poor.

2) I'm currently classified as poor.

3) I have vastly greater informational resources at my disposal than most poor people.

How is "there are always treatments that won't be paid for" a silly extrapolation?

Because it's an utterly pointless statement. Of course there will always be some portion of the populace that cannot be ideally treated. That is no argument whatsoever against doing something to improve the standing of the majority.
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I think there's some selection bias on your sources. Of course the Internet is talking about this Internet bill. On the other hand, I don't watch TV but I do listen to NPR and news radio, and I haven't heard SOPA come up once.
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So not all of these are even second thoughts, many didn't even have first thoughts.

It's very interesting that it is turning out that many (most?) of the large number of names on the sponsors list were lies that completely misrepresented the positions of dozens of companies and organizations.

Isn't that fraud or forgery?

How many bills have been passed because of lists of sponsors that are fabricated? What an abuse of the legislative process this is.
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Isn't this generated code, ie. a nicer FORTH macro in the original source (which we don't see) is being turned into some ugly case-like series of SWAP DUP XXX =?