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Flin Flon? Canada is awesome.

Mostly, we have ATT, VZW, TMO, and Sprint duking it out over most of the customers, while second tier carriers (regional, usually) and MVNOs clean up the scraps. Not too many are doing much of note in terms of disrupting, although there are a few on the horizon. I think that a lot of it has to do with spectrum - there just isn't enough for upstarts, so they end up riding on the main networks of the big 4, or reselling them as an MVNO.
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This is just as easy in most other programming languages... probably even easier with a bash script.
Thanks! And be careful with all the self confidence. I'm sure you're experienced enough to know already but I know for myself that all the motivation and self confidence you go into a project with is fragile and can easily turn into self doubt and procrastination. But that just means you're probably working hard enough to get something done right.
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These are an awesome option for setting up a specific server configuration which - I can see what you're saying - could significantly reduce the time to getting a Rails-based JSON serving backend prepared, for example.

However, it saddens me there's not one, single, ready-to-go FOSS library for this purpose.
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I don't listen to podcasts, but I participate in a weekly podcast...is that bad? It's a videogame podcast if anyone's interested. http://feeds.feedburner.com/gamerhighway
I wonder what these leap year babies (I am one of them) would do were we to adopt this new calendar, as presumably that date would no longer exist.
> "Our company regrets the loss of any of our customers, who remain our highest priority..."

That's probably the only true thing they've said here. They change their public face based entirely on what gets them customers. I don't want to do business with a company that changes their positions every time the wind changes.
You know why the goverment is called the goverment, right?

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Fair enough; I would say that I actually agree with you on all counts.

I would suggest instead that there's an armistice of sorts that keeps the damage to a minimum. If the gloves come off and everyone starts doing it, then there will be a (virtual) bloodbath.

It's also worth pointing out that if politicians started getting trashed by "vigilante groups" on a regular basis, it would further the current (stated) Tea Party agenda of discrediting government (in an effort to shrink the federal government to a point where it can be "drowned in a bathtub"). I KNOW there are supporters of this concept on HN; I don't really care to debate it, and I'm neither looking for a show of support or protest of the idea. I just want to make sure that it's an understood side-effect of discrediting politicians.
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Forget meteorite, it would be a Suprnova.
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This is a fascinating conversation. I've always had trouble working in teams, so I'd like to believe that superior programmers will out in the end. Or at least that they will in a few problem domains.

But I wonder if this is wishful thinking, if this isn't just another case of the prisoner's dilemma. Perhaps like how cities with mostly poor people would collaborate many times in history to conquer neighboring barbarians, even though the barbarians had more freedom and were thus richer. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fates_of_Nations.)

Then again, there's reason for hope. Perhaps the parallelizable sort of programming is more menial. It certainly seems that way with the way communication costs overtake large teams. It's almost like Vernor Vinge's zones of thought (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcPcpF2M27c) - as your team grows bigger you can just watch the members grow dumber in front of your eyes as more and more of their cognitive effort is eaten up by internal communication, leaving less and less for externally-useful work. If this is true, there's hope that advances in programming will automate the low-cognition tasks and allow programmers to focus on the high-cognition ones, leveling the playing field for small, high-cohesion teams.

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Me, I've been obsessed with something raganwald said when he spawned this tendril of conversation: exercising explicit control over the space of inputs my program cares about. My current hypothesis: eliminate fixed interfaces, version numbers, and notions of backwards compatibility. All these are like petridishes of sugar syrup for code to breed more code. Replace them with with unit tests. Lots of them[1]. If I rely on some code you wrote, and I want to pull in some of your recent changes, I need to rerun my tests to ensure you didn't change an interface. Programming this way is less reassuring, but I think it empowers programmers where abstraction boundaries impose mental blocks. Great programmers take charge of their entire stack, so let's do more of that. I'm hoping this is the way to prove small teams can outdo large ones.

[1] Including tests for performance, throughput, availability. This is the hard part. But I spent a lot of time building microprocessor simulators in grad school. I think it's doable.
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I don't agree with that. When I signed my contract with Verizon, they offered online payments via credit card as a free-of-charge option for payment. By charging for that, they are materially changing the nature of our agreement, regardless of whether it was in the contract.

Take it to the extreme: Since method of payment isn't stipulated at all in the agreement, they could just as easily say "Starting 1/15/2012, any payments not made in person at our payment processing facility in Kodiak, Alaska will be subject to a $100 convenience fee." Would that be ok? At what point does it become not ok?
Though I agree with the GP, I don't understand how one-time online payments cost them any more than recurring ones.
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£42 / ~$60 seems to be the most expensive pure Ladle I can find: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Alessi-Mirror-Finish-4180-10/dp/B000...

Special mention goes to a £172 / ~$230 Exoglass Spatula: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Matfer-Exoglass-Spatula-utensils-kit...

I was curious what "Exoglass" is, apparently... "It is a special hi-tech plastic developed by Matfer of France. It is used in the handles of their pastry utensils. It is extremely durable, hygienic, and heat resistant. (Both hot and cold extremes)" but there is no reference of the material outside of cooking, is that strange or interesting I'm not sure.
If the x-axis is 'forward progress', then there is no issue (except that strict "negative progress" may not be defineable).
The first step is to be aware that you aren't writing succinct, manageable code - so you are already making progress :)

I'd recommend these books, mixed with some searching around for best practices for whatever specific framework/language/toolkit you are writing code with.

Clean Code

http://www.amazon.com/Clean-Code-Handbook-Software-Craftsman...

Refactoring to Patterns

http://www.amazon.com/Refactoring-Patterns-Joshua-Kerievsky/...
Reminiscent of "Spatula City".
I respectfully fully disagree with recommending The Art of Readable Code. Particularly, I take issue with the advice on comments, as well as the strange point that sometimes 'goto' is acceptable.

While there are some good sections on things like naming variables and "code aesthics" that kind of advice is not going to dramatically improve your code quality and I think most developers achieve better results with something like Clean Code or Code Complete.
My job involves a lot of mindless tasks (molecular/cellular neuroscience - culturing cells is much less exciting than you'd think). This affords me plenty of time to listen to podcasts. My favorites in no particular order:

Economy/Finance:

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-Market Foolery: http://wiki.fool.com/MarketFoolery

-EconTalk: http://econtalk.org/

-Planet Money: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/

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_______________________________________

Startup/Tech:

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-TechZing: http://techzinglive.com/

-Lifestyle Business Podcast: http://www.lifestylebusinesspodcast.com/

-Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Seminar: http://etl.stanford.edu/

-Coder Talk: http://codertalkshow.com/

_______________________________________

Miscellaneous:

-Think: http://www.kera.org/think/

-Caustic Soda: http://www.causticsodapodcast.com/

-Science Magazine: http://www.sciencemag.org/site/multimedia/podcast/

-Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/

-It's All Politics: http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/
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I just read what someone I've never met wrote about the experience of buying a ladle, then read what a few other people thought about it, and finally wrote something myself on the subject.

What the hell is wrong with ME?
I'd like to believe that superior [solo] programmers will out in the end

I think you're wrong (sorry!) because it's impossible to talk about superior programmers without talking about teams. Building complex systems is a team sport. There's no way around this. But you can't have good teams without good programmers.

The phrase "scaling complexity" has at least two axes built into it: the abstraction axis -- how to get better at telling the program to the computer -- and the collaboration axis -- how to get better at telling the program to each other. Most of this thread has been about whether we suck at the former. But I say we really suck at the latter, and the reason is that we haven't fully assimilated what software is yet. Software doesn't live in the code, it lives in the minds of the people who make it. The code is just a (lossy) written representation.

We can argue about how much more productive the best individual working solo with the best tool can be- but there's no way that that model will scale arbitrarily, no matter how good the individual/tool pairing. At some point the single machine (the solo genius) hits a wall and you have to go to distributed systems (teams). One thing we know from programming is that when you shift to distributed systems, everything changes. I think that's true on the human level as well. (Just to be redundant, by "distribution" here I don't mean distributed teams, I mean knowledge of the program being distributed across multiple brains.)

Maybe you wouldn't have trouble working in teams if we'd actually figured out how to make great teams. So far, it's entirely hit and miss. But I think anyone who's had the good fortune to experience the spontaneous occurrence of a great team knows what a beautiful and powerful thing it is. Most of us who've had that experience go through the rest of our careers craving it again. Indeed, it has converted many a solo type into an ardent collaborator. Like me.

I was originally going to write about this and then decided not to go there, but you forced my hand. :) Just as long as it's clear that when I say "team" I mean nothing like how software organizations are formally built nowadays. It's not about being in an org chart. It's about being in a band.
I did a very similar thing while buying an ironing board for my mother for Christmas. I thought I was crazy, reading reviews for ironing boards.

Two days later, one of them arrived on my doorstep (thank you Amazon Prime…), and the moral of the story is that my mother loves the new ironing board, mainly about how quiet it is compared to the old one, which rivals my age.
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They do have a track record for supporting open soure, free culture and even environmental organizations: https://www.gandi.net/supports/
wtf, how did this post ever get on the main page? I mean for real? Go buy your own ladles people.
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At the risk of sounding like the old guy crabbing about how easy the younger generation has it, do you remember when there were no mobile phones? When you left the house or the office, you were just basically unreachable. If you needed to call someone, you had to find a pay phone and hope you had change, maybe if it was a real emergency you would call collect. You paid per call, and if long distance was involved it was on the order of dollars. For ONE call.

Texting, mobile apps, the ability to call anyone from pretty much anywhere all unlimited, with the phone itself amortized into the monthly bill, for what? $30 a month? $40, $50? A BARGAIN.

And it's not like this fee isn't easy enough to avoid. Sign up for the recurring plan, or pay with an ACH, or send in a paper check if you think YOUR time to deal with a paper bill, write a check, find a stamp, address an envelope, and trek out to the mailbox is worth less than $2.
I thought the "graphs" were a good illustration of ups and downs combined with design iterations and user gain/loss cycles. Of course they were abstract but they got the point across.
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This is interesting and all, but surely not more interesting to hackers than "I Just Ordered a Ladle from Amazon" or "Bullshit" or anything beginning with "Dear MG Siegler."

/s... sigh
Playing devils advocate: could this be a revolt against the credit card companies over their fees, rather than an attempt to screw the customer?
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Technically speaking that's the conclusion of your story, not its moral. The moral might be that spending time looking at what seems like basic utilities results in happier users or something.

edit at 0 points 5 minutes later: :D
Since the fee is easily avoidable I would guess it's not "material" in that sense.
You've inadvertantly identified precisely what the real issue is: where is the line drawn? To you, it's at dicks and gore. Dicks and gore HAVE to be taken down!

Well, I've got news for you. Not everyone has the same threshold for tolerance of offensive material. Maybe the middle finger is devastating to me, but I love seeing gore. Who are you to tell me that's childish?

There are rules. Even HN has a set. If you don't like them, don't play.
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If Facebook did that, many people would see that they could survive one day without Facebook. That would not be good for Facebook, because those same people might contemplate going without for a second day, voluntarily.
Yes, in the abstract, this is fairly ridiculous. However, having tried to use kitchen utensils purchased from a dollar store, it's my experience that there are some that are completely useless.

So, I too would read reviews before purchasing a ladle online, because the handful of images wouldn't give me a good idea of the quality of the item I was purchasing.

Although, I personally would probably buy a ladle at a local store (thrift store if you're looking for a deal), instead of getting it shipped to me.
Amazon Prime eliminated the shipping charges on my $6.15 ladle. And it's snowing outside.

And the physical store has no reviews!
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Or there's the Wexner center which is the type of place that shows 'Satantango' (450 min. runtime) and often has double features for $7 (and less for students/members). I now regret having missed even a single film while I was nearby.
Worth noting that these passwords are all MD5 encrypted but not salted. There were also no creation rules enforced, as a quick check reveals:

Highest reused password count: 12023
"stratfor"? 12023
"password"? 517
"password1"? 46
"Password1"? 24
"123456"? 625
"12345678"? 74
"jesus"? 2
"love"? 7
"war"? 1
"michael"? 39
"america"? 7
"xbox360"? 0
"heroes"? 0

Those last 2 are popular for the battlefield heroes dataset and other gaming-related ones, so I keep them in my script as gaming sites are both highly targeted and usually poorly secured.

Anyway, it's clear that no rules were enforced as a 3-letter dictionary word like "war" would never be allowed by any rule creation system. The fact that "stratfor" was used by nearly 1.4% of all accounts (!) tells me that either their users did not value these accounts or they simply have no idea how passwords are supposed to work.
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Hrm.. I did the same thing last week.

Your estimated delivery date is:
Wednesday, December 21, 2011

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It's a <insert whatever YOU find ofensive> for fuck's sake, so get over it.

The amount of moralizing over what people are "allowed" to find offensive here is amazing. If it were my network, I wouldn't give a rat's ass what MG was doing in his picture, but it isn't my network.
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In case anyone is wondering, the ladle that inspired my post is: http://www.amazon.com/Zyliss-42320-Ladle/dp/B0018IAHTM/
This is for some reason one of my favorite articles I've read on HN in awhile. Probably because it is so (personally) profoundly true, and reads almost like poetry.
Well, that wasn't exactly the point I was trying to make.

My point: The downside of Google products is having to look at their ads. The downside of Apple products is getting locked-in to their restricted platform.

You can sidestep Google's downside with an ad-blocker. You can sidestep Apple's downside with a jail break.

It's easier to run that ad-blocker (heck, you can even get it from Google's own store) and keep it running than it is to perform a jail break and keep that updated.

As an aside - just like a lot of people aren't offended by the restrictions Apple places on its platform, a lot of people are not offended by Google's ads. In fact, I bet there's a very significant overlap in those two groups.
> Facebook's biggest competitor will never be another network, it will be "not bothering with a social network."

I agree that this is their biggest competitor right now, but saying it 'never' will be is a real stretch IMO. Not long ago, we would've said the same thing about MySpace, and look where that ended up. The social networking space is still wearing diapers -- naming the ultimate winner based on what you see today is pretty short-sighted.
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That is EXACTLY why Google and the other big guys are attempting to prevent SOPA from passing. Many people, even on HN, believe that these large entities are on our side, or on the side of freedom, or whatever. The truth is that they don't care about us. They care only about their wallets. All of the time, money and energy they are expending, now, to fight SOPA, is a tiny fraction of what they will be required to spend, in terms of enforcement, should SOPA become law.
The Lean Startup is good but I found Running Lean to be much more tactical. Plus the guy who wrote it, Ash seems to be very active in providing content beyond the book in his newsletters, blog posts, and his Lean Canvas.
Does that make me a programmer poet?
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