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I do software development in the Denver/Boulder area too, but do not know what SFDC stands for. Salesforce something?

I do agree that the lower hourly rate you seek/accept/charge to clients, generally the worse quality clients you get. Clients that want lower rates tend to be more clueless, less experienced, more tight-fisted with cash, more likely to try scope creep on every milestone, and they tend to concentrate too much on rate but not on total hours or quality or other positive qualities. They're more likely to think hard things are simple and simple things hard. This latter point especially is true of most non-technical clients, but in general it's more pronounced with the cheapskate/rate-focused clients, I've noticed in my experience.
This totally flies in the face of Wolphram Alpha's data: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=chicago+vs+phoenix+vs+d...

Phoenix, where I live, is cheaper according to Wolphram Alpha than Dallas, Las Vegas, Chicago, and Devner whereas it's more expensive according to Numbeo's list.
Well first his metaphor doesn't really hold weight. Selling a Used Book is a one-to-one transaction in which the receiver is getting a less than perfect copy. Putting an e-book on a p2p network is a one-to-many transaction that transmits a perfect copy each time.

But that doesn't necessarily invalidate his overall point.

As far as his larger point is concerned I don't think I can say he's right or wrong. What I can say is he's not really looking at the deeper issues.

The real issue behind piracy is societal values. Those who advocate this opinion are basically saying people only have the right to profit from their creations to recover their costs. Beyond that the content belongs to society. That's the only justification for piracy (since you're arguing the cost of distribution is so low the user doesn't need to be compensated for it)

You can dress that up with arguments about fans loving artists and giving them additional revenue streams but since those additional revenue streams are separate transactions that may or may not occur you can't use them as justification for not paying an artist initially for his/her creation.

Beyond that there's the issue of choice. Even if all the pro-piracy arguments are true there will be some artists who simply don't want their work pirated. Even if it's irrational (look at artists like AC/DC who still refuse to sell their music digitally). By imposing piracy on those artists you're again saying their art belongs to society once created.

So that brings us back to the question of societal values. Do we as a society believe content should belong to the entire society upon creation or does it belong to the creator who can choose to distribute it in the way they see fit (even if that means handing it over to a record company or some other corporate entity)?
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Others have pointed out that you need to understand sequences and other basic Clojure stuff first but perhaps my "real world Clojure" blog post series will give you a quick tour of the sort of things you're looking for?

http://corfield.org/search/real+world+clojure
cdist: For anyone looking for a tutorial this is (unfortunately all) that there is:
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More docs under:
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puppet: Making the error messages a bit better and switching to ssh as a transport mechanism would make a lot of people happy.
To participate in HN, you basically want to be sure to point out any logical fallacies, missing citations, and any possible reference to Godwin's Law, the Streisand effect, or the Dunning–Kruger effect.
iPhone release, 2007, SDK release, 2008
Android release October 2008 (HTC Dream)

There's a big difference in tech between one year and three years, especially when we're talking about the V1 of a product type. Additionally, Android offered developers, manufacturers and carriers options that they simply didn't get from iPhones. So far, I haven't seen anything that says Microsoft is providing something really new to any of those stakeholders, aside from a license fee.
normally all you'd need is a 2 liner utility method to facilitate inheritance. For the rest you can use js as it is with it's actual language features which maybe a little verbose (my only lament so far) and prototypical based but you will begin to appreciate it in the long run. I don't like the exaggerated syntactic sugar that many libs bring in, that try to abstract and tuck away js as it is, making it pretend to be a class based language when it is not. That said, this particular lib's size and the direct problems it tries to solves are done so elegantly. It's hard to ignore the good job the author has done!
I'm hard-pressed to accept that .Net isn't a popular framework.

As advice, use ASP.Net MVC3 rather than the classic web forms if you have concerns about maintainability/performance. It "feels" a lot more like Django or Rails than it does like Windows Forms, but you still get the performance and development benefits that .Net has to offer.

Also, for a CRUD application like yours, there's little reason not to use Entity Framework to manage your database. I've saved countless hours myself by not having to write SQL or manually keep database tables up to date with classes as code changes.
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This is a great case of a "picture is worth a thousand words." That picture is heart breaking...

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See, this is why Apple is winning. Because their competitors, analysts and other blowhards think it's just "marketing".

It isn't. But as long as people don't figure that out, Apple will continue to reap their rewards.
To retain users moving to a new platform?
Entertainment, online channels, tv live, news, downloads
Ask HN: What is the best conference for launching a start-up (minimal budget)?
I'm planning to get some exposure for my innovative & one-of-a-kind e-Learning application (Desktop app). I believe it has a revolutionary value :)

I also need to get this done at a minimal budget. I'm a solo-founder & self-funded.

After some research I found these options:
LAUNCH Conference,
Disrupt,
TNW (The Next Web),
DEMO,
SXSW

Please feel free to recommend if there's anything else.

FYI: I'm an Asian.

Thanks in advance.
But why do you assume that I am "setting myself up to get paid way less"? As I said, I have no evidence to suggest that I would command a significantly higher rate on a daily or weekly basis than I do now. However, not taking on any gigs that aren't really full time (but can be combined at my discretion with others that also aren't) would certainly have cost me money in the past.

I can see the argument for fixed price vs. T&M billing. I guess I just don't see why going as far as daily/weekly billing doesn't net a significant part of the downside (no hard limit on hours vs. compensation, no clear cut-off where clients have no claim on any work I do other than for their project) without necessarily netting much upside.

As I said, perhaps that's the way the game happens to be played in whatever markets you've been working in. I'm certainly not saying you're wrong about your own situation. I'm just suggesting that your comments here are black-and-white but don't necessarily apply to everyone else's situations as well.
I wonder how much money they actually lose on a chargeback though? Chargebacks are debited from the merchants account (i.e. the merchant wears the cost of the fraud). So despite the origin of the fraud, the merchant wears it.

This is at least true with digital goods that can't be returned, I don't know what the policy is in regards to physical goods and PayPal.
Ask HN: Is any schools still use Scheme?
Are there schools who use Scheme as programming language?

I want to make some experiment on one of my classes by switching to Scheme. I already use Python for all other classes (children from 14 to 18 years old). I want to use HTDP (with Racket) and some SICP. The reason is that with Python it's tricky to use another libs, use GUI, 3D etc. With Racket it's look much simpler. Also Scheme itself is a lot easier language.
Common Lisp has had with-open-file for a long time now. The great thing about with-open-file is that it ensures the file gets closed regardless of what the code in the scope does, using unwind-protect. This implies you can use the same method to create your own with-held-resource macros that work the same way.
There are a pair of research languages called Harmony and Boomerang [1] that does this with what they call "lenses". There are also some easy-reading introductory slides [2,3].

[1] http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~harmony/

[2] http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/papers/lenses-etapsslides...

[3] http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/papers/harmful-mfps.pdf
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It is not easy to lay off a public servant in Finland, but I think it is mainly so because of the procedure required. Several written warnings need be given that state the reason in plain text. Too often it just takes too much balls from the principal to write down "n. n. does not perform his/hers duties as a teacher in the required way because: ...". And a public servant can be fired because of inappropriate behavior in his/hers free time.
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means you're depending on sysadmins to write code

You're not seriously suggesting to give the management of a complex deployment into the hands of a person who can't program?

With restrictive, structured language you can still provide for all the features they've built into their types/manifests/gencode/etc without relying on someone being able to program.

Sorry, it's delusional to think you could operate puppet without being able to program. In theory the puppet language is said to be "not quite turing complete" or "mostly declarative".

In reality there is no such difference. It's just a (poorly designed) programming language with domain-specific constraints. It does have all the concepts that give non-programmers headache: variables, classes, parametrizable classes, defines, inheritance, etc. And on top of that you better know your ruby, too, because you won't get away without writing custom types, resources and functions. So... your admin is not just using the language - he's also extending it!
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Mootools does all kinds of stuff.
This just allows you to create classes in a traditional way with inheritance and super afaik
Here's the link: http://stanford.edu/~jacobt/reversible.html

I don't think anything happened to it since the hackathon. Judging by own experience with hackathons, I wouldn't expect too much in the way of code quality. (Reading some of my old hackathon code still makes me shudder :)).
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One thing I don't understand is why didn't the buyer just contact the seller directly and try to return the violin for a full refund? Was it sold under the terms all sales final?
That's in many cases what a LET with a dynamic binding does in Lisp.

Set origin
draw
Reset Origin

is

(let ((origin (move 50 50)))
(draw something))

Similar in the Common Lisp object system we use :before, :after and :around methods.

(defmethod draw :before () (move 50 50))

(defmethod draw () (draw-something))

(defmethod draw :after () (move -50 -50))
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Windows Phone is failing because people are not putting it on handsets, and people are not putting it on handsets because Microsoft charges a licensing fee that needs to be pre-paid and that reduces already pretty thin margins.
This is my third account here. My last started posting [dead] last week. I'd very much like to know how one goes from positive karma to censored. Was it too many posts on the SOPA thread? That was the last set of posts before I went [dead]. I made like 10 posts, not a single one was downvoted, and a couple were upvoted 10 or more times. This was an issue I felt strongly about. Fair enough: my opinion may not merit such prolific posting - but how about blocking me from posting on that one article?

I'm attempting to view this positively: my goal is to learn how to communicate effectively here, and clearly I'm doing something wrong. It would genuinely help if I knew what that was.

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ldar15
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To get around this you can distinguish between references that imply ownership and those that don't. In C++ pointers and references do not imply ownership, but values do.

It isn't ideal, but I think it's an impossible situation - I think predictable destruction is fundamentally at odds with automatic, transparent memory management when you push the ideas to their limits. The idea of automatic resource cleanup is tied closely to the idea of tight (recursive) resource ownership. Automatic memory management exists mostly to take care of the cases when object ownership and lifetime isn't clear.

Reference-counting smart pointers (used properly) can technically give you deterministic destruction, but it's kinda beside the point. We want our file handles and our connections closed as soon as we're done with them, not some time in the future when someone else's code cleans up its references to our old objects.
And don't talk about his laptop, how nowadays you can still use that kind of laptop?!
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Update: The search team's response to this shows that thinking of "Google" as a monolithic entity with a monolithic "Googley" attitude or a monolithic "evil" attitude is just wrong, unsurprisingly. Kudos to the search folks; I remain of the opinion that the Chrome marketing folks are fully capable of scummy behavior as desired.
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I still don't understand this mindset.

If one author wants to make the "new market" work for them by giving things away or taking donations, they can do that. If that's the market you like to shop in, then donate or take freely.

But if another author wants you to pay a specific price for their work when you want a copy, and you don't like the price, then you let them know that by not getting a copy. If your reason for not paying is because you don't like their publisher, then you let them know by not getting a copy. Lo and behold, the market will work itself out.

Where does the mindset come from that you're still entitled to those things you're not willing to pay for? Or that your right to have them is more important than the rights of the people who made them? This is to say nothing about overreaching solutions - this guy is saying who cares about the particular solution, any one of them will require me to pay for things I want!
We don't, but the end result for the affected party (the seller) is the same - he lost $2500 worth of goods due to the buyer violating his property and material rights on request of PayPal.
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Stupid question, but what are the advantages of SPDY? And how should the average hacker use it?
Don't you think, 5 minutes is realistic? Looking at customer "service" here in Germany, I would say: Autoreply or max. 30 seconds of manual "labor".
Yours is only one way to define elitist.

Another definition of elite that doesn't tie it to social class:

a group of persons exercising the major share of authority or influence within a larger group
All good advice - operator theory in various guises is ubiquitous in applications but certainly not something many discern even through grad school in CS.

Probably not much point trying to convince people on HN though - having perhaps suffered through an abysmal 'calculus' sequence they are not very receptive to the message that we have barely tapped practical consequences 50 year old mathematics.

You should perhaps do a stand alone blog - even on google plus!
You're also missing the part where someone had to purchase the book new in order for it to arrive at the used book store.

Now, I understand that even a used book can be sold back to a used book store, so the cycle might happen a few times, but in most cases, someone had to purchase that book new before selling it to the bookstore.

TomOfTTB's point about societal values is a good one if people who pirate content are actually trying to morally justify their actions, but I'm not really convinced that they are.

I do think, though, that if the industries backing SOPA put as many resources as they have towards suing customers and lobbying congress towards making new products and innovating the technology in their respective spaces that there actually wouldn't be a problem.

But then, I still firmly believe that the reason people pirate content is because it's easier and more convenient than the "store" options. (DRM, transferability, etc)
This is exactly what Python does, and while Python isn't the fastest language around, it's not that slow either, when compared to other dynamically typed, interpreted languages.
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That depends on the GC implementation. Maybe you're saying that because most modern collectors tend to generational collection, and copy between generation heaps.

But copying is not required for GC. The trusty mark-and-sweep algorithm doesn't copy, for example.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_collection_%28computer_...
For me it was less a way to have discussions and more about the fun of collecting every person you ever knew, but now that you have "collected them all" I have stopped using it.
Tested to work, sir. When women ask me what I do, I simply tell 'em: I'm a hacker. Or when I did online marketing: I convince old people to buy viagra.
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I've always wondered why people were so concerned with improving typing speed in the first place. Perhaps it's just the fact I'm a young programmer and have only been doing it for a few years, but the bottleneck for me has never been how fast I can type.

Most of my time is spent planning things out, thinking things through and debugging, never typing.
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In Perl you can just use scope:

{
open my $fh, '<', "text.txt";
print scalar <$fh>;
}

# $fh goes out of scope so file handle is closed
I don’t want to give a false impression. I don’t advocate this mindset. But from a historical perspective it isn’t that hard to understand. The history of mankind has always been a process of vacillating between societies motivated by self-profit and societies that attempt to live communally.

Right now the world has shifted more towards self-profit because we’re still living in the shadow of the Soviet Union’s collapse (the largest communal society ever attempted). But that doesn’t mean the idea of communal living has gone away completely. What the USSR proved more than anything is a society needs self-profit motivation in order to get people to put in the effort to excel.

There were no startups in the USSR because no one was willing to put a large amount of effort into something that would eventually be owned by the government.

But in that context artistic expression takes on a different bent because it is something most artists feel compelled to put effort into even without a profit motivation. So the question becomes “if something costs almost nothing to produce and the creator is compelled to create it without a profit motivation should it then be communal?”
Saying that a violin has survived the oil embargo would not make any sense. Saying that this brittle musical instrument has survived a brutal war does make sense. Especially in contrast with its (allegedly) not having survived a legal dispute.
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I have no doubt that the appeal of Facebook is declining for individuals that frequent hacker news. tech-savvy, most of us out of college. But there are generations of people growing up with Facebook. I'm friends with some of my younger cousins for example, and they use the service like I used AIM when I was their (lengthy fast exchanges). Also, for high school students and college students, sharing within network is quite active. I don't think Facebook is necessarily on the decline, there is so much content that fbook has essentially cemented it's position as a social hub. I think the role of Facebook is simply maturing.
I think general advice would be not to put too much heart into it. Brain, yes. (But spare the sarcasm.)
Web browsers usually allow the user to change a site's look quite a lot. Try applying a custom stylesheet, or perhaps Readability.
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I'll look at this in the future, however, there are a few issues on GitHub that I would like to see solved first, including the abolition of all warnings on compilation.
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Ask HN: My CEO wants to learn how to code.. What do I do?
My CEO just asked me about learning how to code. He doesn't want to actually write any, he just wants to gain a better understanding of software development.

I think this is great and I do not want to blow this chance by giving him some programming books that he will get bored of and not read.

I want to show him the pitfalls of software development so he can understand why estimating time is difficult, and how we build our technical debt by not fixing bugs when we find them and rushing features etc. I want him to know why we are forced to drop some features and why we are no longer able to keep the same velocity as when the project started.

Can you recommend any articles/blogs/books that can explain this stuff to managers without getting too technical?