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There was a post on this a while back, the idea was that copying helps you communicate because you are using the same style as them. So you are instinctively trying to match so you understand each other better.
Same here except my Touchpad is running Android :)
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Misses the point. It's not the $400k loss that put them out of business, it's the realization that this will be an ongoing issue they will have to deal with as organized criminals target them, and they don't have a good solution. Their model is highly vulnerable, and they don't have an answer.
Coordino - Crappy StackExchange clone (is this legal?)
Does anyone else hate multiple returns?

A do/while condition would satisfy this situation. or while True: if False: break in python
Code Complete book has a very good section on reducing code complexity and gives various tips and tricks with the analysis of possible outcomes. Must read for developers, I think.
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Interesting... I didn't think of leveraging my ASP skills. Thanks.
I've drained my Evo using Maps while plugged in to the car adapter, as well. Frustrating.
I have noticed the copying of mannerisms as well in college. I didn't know about all this research.

But then I decided to play along and started to pick professors and copy their mannerisms and verbal style on purpose. So on week I would talk and act like a math professor, then like the physics one. I didn't do it in an overt, derogatory, or offensive, but in a subtle way. Doubt anyone even noticed. It was interesting that it was easier to copy from those that I respected and looked up to. some that I didn't care about just came harder to do.
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I thought http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB#Charging_ports was the plan for making usb charging aware. It looks more like all of the radios on at once is just more draw than even USB in charging mode can provide. Or do you mean we get another standard that provides even more power?

I'll argue that our phones need to draw less power in their worst case modes personally.
yes, I know SQL Server, HTML, CSS, I have been working with JQuery for a couple of years now. What concerns me is my backend server language. Thanks, I'll brush up on my HTML5 as well.
I think the problem is that no one is going to step forward to provide the open standard for high power/current DC power transmission for these devices. USB is amazingly ubiquitous, as is DC power in cars via the cigarette lighter adapters.

Its a lot of momentum to fight against; the solution is going to need to be extremely compelling to compete against the existing USB/vehicle DC power solutions.
I'm surprised Eric didn't mention the Zen of Python:

>>> import this
...snip...
Flat is better than nested.
You must love Perl.
Are you sure? Is it a measurable phenomenon, or our perception?

I don't know where you are on the globe, but here in the US, the trades have increasing shortages. Even employers offering on-the-job training are failing to find enough qualified* applicants.

The problem is that the social status of these fields has fallen dramatically. The guy who pumps septic tanks in my hometown bills more per hour than the lawyer, yet nobody there hopes their kid will skip college and work on septic systems instead, nor would any out-of-work paper pusher I know consider taking the job (even if it meant making more money than he used to).

Our middle class is most hurt not by the changing nature of middle-class jobs, but the changing perception of them. As recently as the 70s or 80s, the guy who fixed your septic, installed your air conditioner, or fixed your car was considered an important part of society -- the very image of middle-class America. Now he's treated like a loser for not having a degree.

How many people who identify with the American middle class go seek new careers that they and their peers see as lower class, even for middle class wages? I don't know, but my gut and anecdotal observation say "not enough". Changing careers is really hard for some people -- how many will make it while their friends and neighbors look down on them for working a dirty job?

* In this context, "qualified" is roughly equivalent to "will show up on time, won't steal or destroy stuff, will behave decently toward coworkers and customers, can read, can follow directions and learn to turn a wrench". So, not looking for rocket scientists, just basically hard-working folks.
GoDaddy didn't actually change their congressional record of support.
This is largely because the beginning hours of work in any field--coding in general or some specialist programming--are remarkably inefficient. At the very start, everybody inevitably writes poor code slowly. It is more efficient to optimize the learning and try to get people productive quickly than trying to keep them productive throughout.

All the undergrad courses--as far as I can tell--are just introductions to some field or other. Once you get to grad school--and some during undergrad too--you start doing research. This is productive while being didactic; however, I doubt it would be nearly as efficient without the useless classes before it.

In short, while learning you're just solving known problems poorly (that compiler you wrote for your class was probably not comparable to GCC :). The stuff that actually needs to get done and the things you need to do while starting learning are unfortunately different.
I actually found the second example to be quite nice. Even in my current sleepiness-fuzzed mental state, I was able to follow it easily. It was almost refreshing.

I guess that's one of the dangers of using contrived examples. Or maybe it's just proof that this is as much a matter of taste as anything.
I take exception to the submitter calling this crappy. What exactly is crappy about it? I definitely see the StackExchange design but I really doubt this is even close to illegal. Since when is a QA forum idea off limits as an idea? The whole idea of StackExchange by their own admission was to create a better piece of forum software. They did it but I don't think they have a patent on it or anything.

Really, this just looks a lot like StackExchange but I don't think they're really trying to hide that. I think it's great! Has anyone heard of GitLab? It's basically an open sourced GitHub. Its awesome. This is just open source StackExchange. Still awesome.

I'm also wondering why being written in PHP is important? Is PHP not cool enough anymore? Should it have been written in Scala or Haskell or with Rails or Django? CakePHP (which is what their site runs on at least) is awesome too. Boo to this title.
"having revealing pictures and even stats (measurements) of the women is pretty much the definition of objectification."

Interesting. What do you think about the info on Eharmony, Match and other dating sites: age, height, athletic, curvy, this, that? Objectification?
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Rather than whitelisting specific advertisers, why not come up with some acceptably non-annoying ad templates and tell the filter to let through things that match the template? Advertisers can just fill in the template and they'll know their ads will be shown. Make the template invisible if there's no ad blocker.

I think this might be the ultimate solution to the online advertising issue: the advertisers provide abstract content and the users decide if and how they want to look at it.
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Would love to hear what you think. In here or on the comment pages. Thanks all.
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I agree entirely, but you know what. It's women who decide to pursue this route as opposed to another. Some women just like to be in front of the camera with as little cloth as possible, as well as men (EDIT: I think we forget guys do this too). If you live such lifestyle, you cannot complain later about how society views you.
"The Internet wouldn't die. The Internet would continue to thrive, and would probably end up providing a much nicer user experience."

I think at this point, you would probably see many more pay-only websites. I could easily see the major Internet providers getting together with website owners and charging for premium services almost like bundled cable packages.

"Projects like Diaspora would have more chance of succeeding with no competition from privacy abusing ad reliant services like Facebook."

In a world without ads, Diaspora still wouldn't succeed. Since they can't sell advertising reliably for money, they would have to either sell products or charge a monthly fee. Most people aren't going to pay a monthly fee for a facebook-like service and without the popularity, it would be just another failed startup.
Why it's crappy? Why you doubt it's legel? If you doubt so than maybe hacker news is also illegal because it looks like a raddit clone. (of course not)
Why do we need a "more sophisticated" source of DC power? What would that even look like? 12VDC is 12VDC. Are current 120VAC (or whatever your mains voltage) similarly unsophisticated?

Besides, with an install base that numbers in the hundreds of millions and most of which have well over a decade of useful life.
Trade-off between building quick functionality vs a flexible, maintainable code is a business decision. Engineers at a startup cannot sit down and design a system for months that will work for 10 million users. However, they also cannot patch their code and have it create problems within a month and then having to redesign it again.

Once your product vision is clear, you can try to see as much into the future as you can. You know where your product can/will go based on what problem you are trying to solve. Once you get into "what-if" territory, you know you have ventured too far.

Therefore, I truly believe that engineers should be aware of the business needs and the product roadmap/vision to make such decisions. Engineers can then decide where(and how much) flexibility should be added. Most of the future-proofing is done for scenarios that may not exist out of the imagination of the engineers. They should know what can be possible and what cannot. No system can be designed to handle all scenarios without adding untold complexity.
HN and reddit are similar, but they also take different approaches. Coordino advertises itself as a "StackExchange clone" in the page <title />. It seems to be copying as many aspects of StackExchange as possible, down to the look and feel.

I called it "crappy" because it is much less polished than StackExchange. Perhaps the pejorative is unfair.
Please fix the bug where trying to connect my account to a Google account just leads me to a completely blank page http://news.ycombinator.com/openid_merge with the word "Unknown." (Sorry, didn't understand where to report bugs.)
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Let's take it a step further. Uber could provide a futures market for car service. The same economic incentives which drive cattle producers to lock-in the prices at which they will sell their cattle at the same time as they lock-in their feed prices exist for car service. Thinking about staying at the swanky hotel that's located a few miles from the party? Buy a forward contract on car service at the same time you book the room.

The issue I see is that, without standardization of "product", it would be hard to create an active marketplace. To a driver, taking someone away from the city to the suburbs isn't as valuable as a route which leads to another customer's point of departure. This, of course, implies that the drivers would also be participating in the futures market. If they noticed, before considering taking NYE off to be with their families, that they could earn $200/hour, they might reconsider.

Furthermore, would customers be willing to lock-in service at a particular time? What if the party is still going strong at your appointed time? You could sell your service slot to someone else, but would you be willing to put your contract up for sale while sipping a martini with your significant other? Is there a market design which provides sufficient certainty and price/demand visibility in a way where transactional costs don't destroy the value proposition?

Perhaps the ubiquity of pocket "trading terminals" will usher in a new era of dynamic pricing which will require the design of new market models? Next up, concert tickets.
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It's HTML, you can put any image or video you want.

Yoda is "hardcoded" because it's just a demo.
Wouldn't it be easier/faster to just parse the desired URL from the link?
Being written in PHP is not important. I edited the title to remove that. I saw the page's title was:

"<title>Coordino - Home - A FREE PHP StackOverflow Clone</title>"

and just automatically included "PHP" in the HN submission without thinking terribly much about it.

A QA forum is not off limits. You are correct that they are not trying to hide that it's a SE clone. Maybe it's legal, but it feels kinda gross to me to make a shoddy knockoff of someone else's innovation.

I say it's "crappy" because it feels less responsive and lacks polish compared to the real thing. The formatting is oddly jumbled. For example, on InterviewStreet's installation (http://discuss.interviewstreet.com/), questions have some upvote count on the main page, but when you view that question directly, the upvote count is 0.
Example in the wild: http://discuss.interviewstreet.com/
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Thanks for this. Just what I wanted :)
Thanks, "The Draw of ‘Dead Town’" article explains it:

===

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2009/02/06/the-draw-of...

"I missed pulling out the gun on people, I missed the adrenaline. I like taking risks. It's the high."

===

So it's more like drug addiction.

It is responsibility of quitting gang member to deal with such addiction. Blaming gang members on keeping him in the gang usually is not correct.
Or vice-versa, i.e., one's thinking style affects one's choice of programming language. I believe this is why some programming languages just never clicked with me. My brain definitely resisted Perl...at first....
I have always liked the Linux kernel coding style in this regard:

Now, some people will claim that having 8-character indentations makes
the code move too far to the right, and makes it hard to read on a
80-character terminal screen. The answer to that is that if you need
more than 3 levels of indentation, you're screwed anyway, and should fix
your program.

Yes indentation != nested ifs, but in the end its about the same. I don't mind a bit of nesting, but I think Linus is onto something with >3 meaning: you've done something wrong, step away from the keyboard and think about what you've done.
If I understand this correctly, a portion of Google employees' bonuses was tied to their success in social. I guess it's not a mandate, but it's certainly motivational.

http://www.businessinsider.com/larry-page-just-tied-employee...
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It depends on the compactness of the code. If it's a large function, I try to avoid it, but 100% adherence to "one entry, one exit" kind of misses the spirit of the idiom. Something like:

if (condition)
return true;
return false;

is no less readable and sometimes more intuitive than the equivalent

bool x = false;
if (condition)
x = true;
return x;
I've always taken "systems language" to mean something you might write an OS in while the Go team takes it to mean something you'd replace Java with. Whichever way you want to look at it one thing the Go team can't say is that writing an OS is a "non-systems" problem.

Ideally these would be disjoint sets (in my opinion) but consider this: ASM -> C -> C++ -> Java -> ... looks like a continuum if you're writing any kind of Java code, but there's a sharp discontinuity in there if you're writing (say) a boot loader.
Probably about 20 with half on the do not renew list as things didn't work out.
This is a really good article about the ELF. I am not a system level programmer but always inquisitive about how this, the ELF, work. Thanks for sharing
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Yes. I generally try to avoid them in my code, unless doing so makes the logic significantly more contorted and then I put a prominent comment way out on the right margin to draw attention to the inner return.

That first get_cached_user example probably doesn't need to be nested. I don't know about Python but I would expect an optimizing compiler to short circuit the redundant conditionals if it really mattered. If it really did matter for performance, the aesthetics become a distant second consideration.

I don't see anything wrong with the get_media_details example, other than perhaps the logic of the example itself. It looks readable to me, but a blank line after 9, 13, and 19 would help with readability. If it were to grow more complicated I might look at refactoring using some sort of object polymorphism.

To me the only thing worse than complex deeply-nested control structures is code that tries to hide that complexity for aesthetic reasons in control structures that are only superficially simpler.
I wonder if the Chinese approach to affordable housing, government building huge apartment complexes, will fare any better than the U.S. approach of underwriting housing loans, instead of building houses directly, i.e., a kind of housing voucher system. Vouchers are supposed to be the most hands off, libertarian way for government to get involved with anything, and even that blew up big time.

All I'm sure of is that whenever big government steps in, SNAFU and FUBAR are not far away.
Scoble seems to be pretty open with such things so why just not ask him?
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Whoever said anything about insults? I'm just pointing out that, in important ways, they are quite different from adults.
I don't understand why you think a distributed social network couldn't work without web adverts? There are plenty of organisations that would derive value from setting up nodes. Universities would. I'd imagine it coming as a free addon to email services and other subscription services.
I worked at Google for a number of years during which time lots of products were coming out or ramping up. For instance, at the time Orket was Google's social strategy du jour.

There was minimal (if any) pressure to use Orket over the burgeoning Facebook or aging MySpace at the time. When we ran internal experiments often we would use Google properties like Orket and/or other dog food. But it wasn't required.

I believe this time around (G+) there was more employee encouragement. Probably both in internal PR and (if rumors are true) financially.

But either way, folks that work at Google are proud of working there. It's not unlike rooting for your college team. And as a result they're likely to use Google products without extra incentive.
How about this:

return condition;
What is the best way to reach marketing guys of brands for advertising purposes?
If you want to build a company, being a generalist beats being a specialist, especially if you're building a business that is just related to technology peripherally (such as healthcare, or education). You need the specialists eventually, but by then you already got market fit and hard stuff is mostly done.
Direct emails?through linkedin? through lead generation firms?through digital marketing firms of brands?For an ex,assume a company like foursquare or an ad network like admob how do they reach advertisers(in this case only brands like walmart,pepsi,Levis,Subway)?What is the best way?
I don't want to comment on all criminal business. I'm against murder, rape, kidnap and many other crimes.

In my opinion prostitution and theft fall in the gray area.

Risk-Reward balance in theft is probably the same as in every other risky business. The difference is barrier to entry is so low. That makes all the difference.

Alright, I'll just say this, because I don't want to look like a guy who takes moral high-ground on issues. I got my bike stolen, few years before, I was broke at that time, in a job that doesn't pay at all. I was not crazy about the thief at all. My insurance company paid me after a year, which I used to buy my first web server, which led to me starting my web design business.

I try not to put material possessions above human beings, I lost my bike. But, I don't want to put the thief in jail, and steal years of his lifetime.