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I'm generally a Linux user, but I've grown to appreciate OS X's keyboard shortcuts. Cmd-C will copy text on just about any OS X app including the terminal and emacs. On the Linux terminal, you have to use Ctrl-Shift-C to copy (to avoid sending SIGINT to the current process), and God forbid you ever need to copy anything in the Windows terminal.
Tip: The default Bourne-shell-compatible prompts end with $ while the default C-shell-compatible prompts end with % or >. (zsh is an exception to this.) Root (super-user) prompts often end with # by default. Of course, this behavior is configurable.

Gee, who could ever find that confusing?!

As much as I love Unix now, I can't help but understand when the author says students see the above as a "baroque regression". It just seems so ridiculously arcane when you're used to clicking on things. Of course things are much better once you're on the other side of the learning curve, but it can be a doozy.
Cached version. He's using Wordpress and probably doesn't have a caching plugin installed.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Unfortunately the JVM is optimized for Java, rather than for computer languages in general. This is a problem because you can't just say execute function 'foo' on object bar, you have to look up the type of bar to find foo and then execute it.

Clojure gets around this by having all its functions implement a standard interface, and Java 7 has sorta seen the light (still no closures, but they can kind be emulated).

JRuby just suffers.
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I find it hard to criticize the author for his obvious misunderstanding of the purpose of a certain piece of software and its inability to be anything other than what it is, as many people have tried and continue to try and convert their particular flavor of blogging software into the mess that is CMS and god forbid, an app.

It serves neither purpose well and someone who who claims to have been working on the internets ever since their immaculate inception should know better than to recommend [hosted] Wordpress to anyone other than the random dreamer who still thinks that they need a website from which to pontificate. In good conscience, I no longer even do that, as I find it to be a cruel exercise to inflict on someone who's otherwise harmless.
I think this puts you at an unfair disadvantage. Who wants to hire someone who lies? What will you say AFTER a good interview then your future employers start to do a background check?

Be honest with the recruiters and tell them you wouldn't bother interviewing for a job that is not in your target range.
How about the ability to hide your friends list from people you aren't friends with?
Mostly I used to agree with this.

But between a decent command-line, apt-get and gnome-do I don't like the idea of using another OS at all.
This includes Google+ content but not GDocs/Gmail content? If Google wants to really personalize my search and discovery I want universal tags. Let me browse my content by tags across services. If I have 2 documents, 1 contact and 3 emails tagged (labeled) 'HN' I want to be able to go into gmail (or some other page) search label:HN and see all 6 'things'
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It's not just a button, either. You can opt out entirely from preferences.
This actually seems to be happening with a lot of the "old workhorse" style languages. Perl, PHP & Python all seem to be struggling with their reinventions.
Medical care is the most highly regulated industry in the economy...

Uh huh. Talk to the (quite profitable) utility companies about that.
Awesome lesson, and I appreciate that you explained the implementation.

We already have too many apps shoved down our throats. Make it as seamless as possible for your app to work with the tools people are already using (i.e., don't send emails that say "You have a new message at NewApp - click on this link to see it" - actually SHOW the message) and you'll have much better adoption.
This is ridiculous. Facebook has a very open API at https://graph.facebook.com that makes nearly all data on Facebook profiles "open" once the owner has granted permission to access that data.

The issue here is that Google wants unfettered access to scrape/index all of that data, or at least the public info and then build a huge business around the copied data.

Facebook isn't stupid. Anybody that would let their biggest competitor walk in, copy their entire database, then build products on top of it with no recriprocal business relationship would be stupid. Google doesn't let people copy their web index, or detailed profiles of everybody on the Internet that indirectly uses Search, AdSense, Analytics, etc.

Google built G+ because Facebook balked at giving the keys to the kingdom to Google basically for free, so they decided from now on their only recourse was to own as much data on their own servers as possible. This contrasts with their old business of passively indexing what they have access to without making huge business deals with third parties that still maintain control over the data Google will increasingly rely upon to stay relevant.
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"As a Ruby project, it unsurprisingly has vocal hipster fanboys."

This isn't my experience. Puppet Labs certainly doesn't promote their products as hip Ruby projects. That would be counterproductive, since their marketing is aimed at the enterprise sysadmin and his managers.

"in no time flat you’ll start seeing full blown Ruby programs intermingled"

On the puppet-users lists, questions that require writing Ruby are infrequent. For my repository, the filetype breakdown is

$ find puppet/ -name '*.pp' | wc -l
214
$ find puppet/ -name '*.erb' | wc -l
34
$ find puppet/ -name '*.rb' | wc -l
7
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You also need to take into account how much it costs to become a doctor in the EU and the fact that in places like the UK doctors trained and employed by the NHS are free to go and augment their income by doing work on private paying patients.
Will an exceptional developer really go through a phone interview, several hours of unpaid coding, a code review, another hour long phone interview, another interview where they must prove "strong opinions about software practices", an interrogatory lunch, an afternoon solving made up logic puzzles, then a pair coding session?

That sounds like torture to me. Don't exceptional developers' portfolios and resumes say enough that they don't need to suffer through all that to get a great job? Are the exceptional developers really the ones applying for your job in the first place?

This isn't the worst interview process I've ever read about. I've heard of developers applying to jobs at Microsoft getting 3, 4, 5 levels of interviews before finally getting a job. But most of the developers I met at Microsoft were competent, not exceptional. Exceptional developers didn't need to waste their time with that kind of process and they know it and they moved much more fluidly between jobs.
The Internet Archive shows "Lisp as an Alternative to Java" onwards from May 31, 2000.

http://web.archive.org/web/20000531154721/http://www.norvig....
What if Foxconn just doesn't respond? Would anything actually happen to them if the people mass suicided?
It's always irritated me to see the use of the word "her" because of the blatant political-correctness of it. If you want to be PC, use "their".
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In the same vein, add an option to reply to the email to add a reply or comment to the message.
The views of the bloggers at the incidental economist tend to be moderate liberal. Seriously, go read the blog, and find me a single post indicating libertarian views.

I'm sorry that data driven liberalism conflicts with mainstream ideology and your favored talking points.
Generally speaking software tends to either start powerful and try to work its way towards usability, or start usable and try to work its way towards power. The latter approach almost always beats the former.

A simple but usable product attracts new users, those new users eventually start demanding features, the features eventually get added, the new features make the product attractive to more people, some of those people become new users, they demand even more features, etc. It's a virtuous circle.

The powerful but complicated product, on the other hand, doesn't attract new users, and its existing users learn to live with its idiosyncrasies, either because they want to or because their boss orders them to. So there's never enough real pressure on the developers to make it truly usable, which means it doesn't attract new users, which means there's no pressure to make it more usable, etc. It's a vicious circle.

WordPress has been pursuing the start-simple-and-get-powerful model, and they've made a lot more progress in that direction over the last couple of years than the start-powerful-and-get-usable (Drupal, Plone, TYPO3, etc.) have at making themselves more usable.
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> The issue is with static typing. One can define a filterMap function in Scala much as you defined it in CL. The author's goal is to do that while also always statically knowing the most precise type of the returned collection.

That's right.

> So, it's an issue that only comes up in a statically typed language.

No, that's wrong. You can do type inference in non-statically typed languages. Lisp compilers do this all the time.
I haven't done this, I've been lucky enough to get out of being underpaid by getting poached for much higher figures. That said, agencies have two conflicting incentives. One is to get a person landed for the highest possible salary, since they get a percentage fee, the other is to place someone who is capable of doing the job. I think they mostly ask you for your current salary as a gauge for your current level of experience or capability. Since you're underpaid, that gauge isn't entirely accurate, so I think it's perfectly understandable to want to tell them what you think you are worth. It's not totally honest, but then again the agencies are also not totally honest with you either. I would do it. I don't think this will come back and bite you at any point. Most people never have to negotiate business deals, but they have to negotiate a salary, and many people are bad at that. There's a certain level of bluffing involved, and you should try to do it without having to lie.

If you want to be totally squeaky clean on this in your conscience, then it would really be best not to disclose your salary in the first place. This is sometimes a good strategy too, since people feel compelled not to insult you with too low an offer. Only sometimes.
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In Germany its optional starting from a certain income level. (At least it was x years ago)
Check this postmodern deconstructive text to show the confusing arguments in the current case; "I hate Verizon for their control(crappy software) on my device, I hate Google because it lets Verizon control my device, but I love Apple because they don't let Verizon control my device, because they control my device and kick competing platforms, and porn from the app store; and doomed me to use only AT&T for years, so I hate total control, and I hate Apple because of its total control, they control everything; but they do it for me, and Verizon does it for money or for its customers?"
If you design chips, you might wonder how anyone gets by without an FPGA. If you develop a kernel, you might wonder how anyone gets by without remote debugging. If you develop drivers, you might wonder how anyone gets by without a C compiler or assembler.

The problem with your critique is that you're thinking at the wrong level of abstraction. If (and, yes, this is a big if) you are developing a web app on a platform where all of the low-level concerns are taken care of for you, then the final point is completely valid. I'd even go so far as to strike the text editor from that list. Already today, you could (in theory) develop a Rails or Node app in Cloud9, store the code on Github, and deploy to Heroku with little more than a ChromeBook.

Ok, we're not quite there yet, but I hope you get my point... That said, there are still chip designers, kernel programmers, and driver developers. And there will always be "backend engineers" (though I think we need a better term) who need debuggers, benchmark utilities, packet analyzers, etc.
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I thought this was an analyst meeting, not a regular CES floorshow demo.
The out-of-pocket was 0 in the sense that my tax is already paid and there was no additional expense in me choosing to go to hospital to be checked out.

So, yes, I pay for it. A big chunk of my pay packet goes to tax, but i'm happy knowing I can receiving good treatment without having to work out if I can afford it.

I'm also happy it means those less fortunate than myself (re: current income levels) will receive the same level of treatment.

After hitting the road and dusting myself off, it meant I didn't have to do a cost/benefit analysis of going to hospital vs. walking it off.
IMO To say my current employer is paying me X when there not is not right, I would have said it doesn't matter what there paying me now, this is what I want to make if I change jobs.

That way you didn't lie and you made your point about future salary requirements.

I think it never hurts to shop around, if nothing else it keeps your current employer honest.
So all the people working there who are willing to take extreme measures to improve the working conditions are planning to eliminate themselves from the equation? Seems like they're doing Foxconn a favor. What ever happened to going on strike?
Enable 'Apps Search' from here:

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#settings/labs
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I find myself using VMs allot since I have a set of preferred applications for doing my work.
The majority of them are platform agnostic but some are not and the ones that are not are all for different platforms.
I'm surprised there's no mention of the vulnerabilities in Wordpress or its plugins. I've had nothing but virus infestations on nearly every Wordpress install I've set up. I'm sure the problem lies more with the random plugins, but Wordpress itself sure makes it easy to find and install plugins with no kind of security audit.
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I guess it depends on the definition of "powerful".
Scala unlike Haskell, has first class modules ( aka OO ) and unlike Coq (And Agda, I presume) is turing-complete.
( Not that those things really matter to make an awesome language :) )
But for mature statically typed langs running JVM, Scala is the most powerful ...
Off-topic but if there is anyone from Braintree reading this, I'm interested to know how you feel about Stripe and FeeFighters Samurai entering the market at a more competitive price point with lower barriers to entry (i.e. fill in a form and go vs. laborious and involved merchant application process) given that your pricing has remained resolutely more expensive.
Would you buy a bloodPhone?
Oh, yeah, that's a good one. That was a long time ago.
I wonder if he still stands by this rant? (Nothing has changed in the OS landscape but people tend to mature with time and their absolute stances tend to mellow with experience).
npm's tracking of dependencies, and potentially downloads, could be used to help tier packages in search. You can currently see the most depended on packages, as well as the packages that depend on individual packages, but this could be taken further to help establish PageRank like authority.
Well it does matter if you do anything else than webdev..I develop games with Unity which is only available for Windows and Mac... Also building native iOS apps is only possible on one plattform...i would consider Linux otherwise, but no choice.
So OSX is the way to go, and i love the tight hardware/software integration which makes the macbook sleep/wake-up etc without any issues, which is always a pain on Linux to get right.
Clickable:
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I love how this comment is getting up and downvoted all over the place, it has been as low as -1 and as high as 13. Currently on 9
In what hypothetical world?

In the world joezydeco lives in. Apparently high deductible plans have already caused hospitals to change their procedures.

Consumers have no say in how much the procedures cost.

Consumers now have an incentive to shop around or try alternate treatments.

With a low deductible plan, their only incentive is to find the doctor they like the best or the hospital closest to their house.
Taking advantage of the predicament of others is not capitalism; it is price gouging. It would be one thing if the consumer were able to compare prices and other aspects of the product and make a choice based on the consumer's values (of which price may not be the most important thing). This is a bit more like a gas station charging 10x more during a hurricane evacuation.
So we can only use "his" or "their"?
Yes. There is extensive intentional fraud and corruption in the system, along with rampant profiteering that exists regardless of whether an entity has been granted "non-profit" status. (Non-profit doesn't mean you can't pay everyone on the board of directions millions in compensation.)

Each time I've dealt with it (mostly helping relatives with their confusing bills) there's been double and triple billing, and billing for procedures not performed, and for work done by people that weren't present, or on days the patient wasn't even present. The more complex the treatment, the more entities jump in to the feeding trough for a share. You have to keep extensive records of everything actually done, which is not always possible if you are not with the patient 24/7. Then when the bills come they are full of hundreds of cryptic codes. You might have some procedure done that takes 30 minutes, and get 20 different bills from 10 different entities, sent over a period of 18 months following the procedure, which apparently now lasted days and involved dozens of people, medicines, tools, and tests, some done multiple times.

The primary reason medicine costs crazy amounts in the US is because of corruption and fraud. Sending a lot of these people to prison could do a lot to reduce costs and straighten things out. That and single payer.
• If you are looking for an All-in-one Content Management System, I doubt WordPress or any other competitors would satisfy you.

• WordPress comes with an attitude and a path. And as long as you are in this same attitude and path, you are fine. Otherwise it's best to part ways...and stop complaining...

• You should have spent more time building plugins to complement the WordPress System. You waited for others to deliver to you... (which is a bad call for a developer of your stature)
A pretty good array of interview tips which can be summarized as follows:

(1) Make yourself as comfortable as you can, so that you can:

(2) Make it clear what you're thinking and how you think (which is the point of the interview).

I'm not signing on for the concept of always doing your interview in Python, however. Do your interview in the language you're most comfortable in, unless it's something so esoteric that it's likely to throw the interviewer off balance. Python is a great language for these sorts of exercises if you know it, but don't force the issue if you don't, because then you're violating (1) above. I know Python well myself, but I'd do an interview in Java because that's "home" to me, and you need all the "home" you can get during an experience as alienating as your standard interview.
I found all existing configuration management systems to be overly complicated and not modular enough.

So, I've decided to try and reinvent the wheel with Bootstrap: https://github.com/olegp/bootstrap

Any feedback or comments would be really appreciated.
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In the USA both the caller and the callee pay for airtime.

In Europe the caller pays for air time.

While I vacation in Europe (Netherlands) I have a pay as you go SIM card that I use. I've used it the past 4 years, I've put no money on it since I bought it and I've used up all of the minutes, I get 10 free texts. When people want to get ahold of me they can call me and I can answer my phone, even-though I have no "minutes" left on my SIM card. I can receive text messages, and it won't count against my 10 free texts. I can use those 10 free texts to prompt people to call me.

That is beautiful. In the United States if I get a pre-pay sim card the money on it expires after 90 days if I don't use it, and at that time the number becomes invalid too. Unless you pre-pay $100 dollars onto the pre-pay card. I've had the same number for the last 4 years now, in The Netherlands, and it hasn't expired.
Disclaimer: i've used Drupal for a couple of projects and I like it for its easyness for noncoder, this is just about the cons:
Drupal is very good and powerful (i think the best part is the ability to create custom contents with CCK - now included in core in D7), surely more "CMS" than WP, but it's far from being perfect. As someone wrote in another comment, sometimes it's a nightmare (theming or just finding the right module and hoping it wont give you problems with other modules).
There are also people saying it has become more and more overbloated
http://www.unleashedmind.com/en/blog/sun/the-drupal-crisis
others stating that it's better to move to more developing oriented framework:
http://erickennedy.org/Drupal-7-Reasons-to-Switch
and big consulting company that has worked with Drupal and is now moving to other:
http://drupalradar.com/breaking-development-seed-quits-drupa...

I think every single CMS/platform/framework can be criticized or even demonized if you search well.
I boot into Windows for work since our whole stack is Windows-based and it's just easier that way. I agree that to a pretty large extent the OS doesn't matter when developing. This is especially true when everything is up and running fine. But there's the rub -- when things go south, that's when you find out what your preferred OS is.

Troubleshooting a recent virus/malware problem on Windows turned into rebooting countless times, Windows Update incantations, several malware tools, and so forth until the OS was unbootable and I had to wipe it and install everything from scratch. Knowing what I know about Windows and Mac, I know how much easier it would have been to deal with this problem on the Mac, not to mention that it most likely would never have occurred in the first place.

So, that's my two cents -- when everything is running the difference can be negligible. When you hit problems, the difference may not be so negligible anymore.
A few years ago i recommended website baker as a nice simple CMS, which is also hackable if necessary. That was three years ago. Maybe the situation has changed, but i would never recommend a complexity-monster like Typo3. Typo3 is "enterprisy" in the negative sense.

http://www.websitebaker2.org
Do you want Siri to "really know you"? For a service that you want to give you answers as relevant as possible, the answer is probably yes. Although, I'd still like to be be able to choose the de-personalized version, and Google seems to be offering this, too.