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Don't steal other people's work.

There is no legitimate reason to do so. EVER.
It doesn't say the screenshot is from Safari, and I have seen that whitespace when I've testing things in IE7. Funny thing I found earlier when I went there in IE9 in IE7 emulation mode - Facebook crashed the tab every time I tried to click on an individual's profile (Timeline enabled or not.) Didn't bother to actually load a VM to test a true instance of IE7.
Useless 'cat' detected ;)

But seriously, nice work. Being able to put something useful together that easily (in terms of lines of code) is what most attracted me to UNIX/Linux coming from Windows. The amount of CLI tools one can take advantage of is simply astonishing.
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You would have to be the biggest cynic in the world about democracy to think there is no difference between an elected senator and a monarchic (hereditary) title of nobility.
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I hadn’t, but it seems to be a very good solution within the current model of things. Thanks for putting me on to this.
A colleague of mine wrote a spreadsheet in one line (253 bytes) of BASIC. I wonder if I still have it somewhere ...
Congratulations on your first week.

There is a fine line between helping a co-worker and doing their work for them.

I would say the idea of having a conversation with him that you need to finish your work before you can help him might come off as self-important and arrogant, especially since you seemed to set the precedent when you started watching his screen and asking if he was having trouble.

Perhaps, a better method of dealing with this is to not drop everything when he asks for help, and delay him until you're more available. During that time he might start seeking help from others anyway.
To be fair, it's clear why ATT would want to avoid handling cash in the store. Most people probably don't do that, it's probably small amounts, and they probably spent more offering that service than they collected.

The strange thing about verizon was that they wanted to charge a fee when there was no apparent prompting, for one of the more convenient (for verizon as well as customer) methods.
You suggested the article was 'manufactured' because your resume on DICE isn't getting you job offers from high-end companies. We're telling you that you're doing it wrong. It's relevant.
Thanks for the link. I loved the sample problems!
They do test spatial intelligence. Dental entrance exams test your spatial intelligence, like folding 3-D boxes, hidden surface deduction, etc.
It was the SBL. I don't remember the details of how my emails were getting blocked. But they were obviously getting blocked, because if they hadn't been, I'd never have found out about the problem. At the time the Spamhaus guys themselves didn't deny that they'd blacklisted large numbers of innocent Yahoo Store users. Their defense was that the end justified the means.

You seem naive about the nature of evil if you think that it somehow precludes doing constructive work. Bad people don't wake up every morning thinking "what evil shall I do today?" What distinguishes them is that they cross lines other people won't. But the situations that test them may come up fairly infrequently.
But if all web applications were to serve content as meaningful objects, then the underlying format could be anything, so long as it were standardised. VMs could transmit everything as JSON if they so chose, but they might as well use a binary format because no human need ever see it.

If all applications are communicating using the same abstractions, then it doesn’t even matter what language they’re written in. My site can be written in Haskell and it’ll serve blog entries just as well to Haskell on the Firefox VM on Windows as to Ruby on the Chrome VM on a Linux toaster. And we never need to agree on an interchange format, because that’s the VM’s job.
What is a 5% non active equity stake?
And what on earth does it mean to a code-monkey?
Not at all. The people who work in some government jobs benefit me, while others harm me.

Ironically, whenever anyone tries to defend government the first thing they mention is the roads, which are less than 1% of the budget and an even smaller percentage of personnel, and toward which the actual work is done by locally contracted private firms.

Sure, there are a lot of coordination problems that government tries (with varying degrees of success) to solve, but this doesn't put it beyond reproach. And it's certainly the case that even the US government has a fairly high degree of corruption, much of which diverts resources away from those in need toward those with political connections.

So in my view, governments derive legitimacy from their ability to solve coordination problems, adapt to changing circumstances, and stave off policies that incentivize corruption or put human rights at risk.

In the case of figurehead monarchies and the hereditary titles they grant, I think the best that could be said is that they offer nostalgia for a past era when such things mattered. In reality, vane humans strive to show status by meeting with royalty, since in spite of the monarchy's utter backwardness and absurdity, is still not something everyone gets to do, so the scarcity of the opportunity creates social value.

The reality of knighthoods past is that they were titles awarded to warlords in exchange for tributes (aka voluntary taxes) paid to a more powerful warlord (aka king) who granted privileges, land, etc., in exchange for those tributes.

This still happens today only w/o the pageantry: Imagine a US military truck with crates full of cash paying Afghan warlords for intel and mercenary troops. This is ugly business and there is no honor whatsoever in it.
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Sounds like 150k to 200k to me.
Ask HN: Fundamental texts for serious web engineers?
As someone who would like to be a one-man-army / technical co-founder in the world of web development, I've been recently trying to deepen my technical knowledge of the fundamentals. I realized my understanding of the basics was very simplistic and as far away from "hardcore" as imaginable. I spent years working in the industry, and made the giant early mistake of not asking "how does this actually work underneath?" for way too long, so now I'm embarking on the likely life-long journey to fix that.

I realize that it's impossible to gain truly deep knowledge into every aspect of web engineering, but I believe that given time one can still be proficient in most of its areas. More importantly, this knowledge should be abstracted from the "flavor of the month" technology, and it should enable one to quickly learn and adapt. Also I think this knowledge should be pragmatic, practical and highly relevant to the real world and business application.

For starters I began learning more about how programming languages work underneath, which so far Programming Language Pragmatics 3rd ed has been really good at explaining, at just the right level of detail.

I imagine that some of the other fundamental areas of understanding for a web developer would be:

- operating systems
- networking
- databases
- security
- distributed systems
- UX

For these areas, and more if you can identify them, would you folks be able to recommend modern and pragmatic texts that would give one a solid level of depth? I realize that there would be plenty of overlap with a standard CS curriculum, the difference would be in a higher focus on practical application, rather than theory.
I think the trend is definitely positive for us.In my experience I dont think there is any negative connotation to being a programmer these days.Whether positive or not depends upon what kind of stuff a programmer does.Personally when I tell people I make apps for iPhones and iPads I do think I get some positive social credit.

With the increasing adoption of technology in our daily lives,I think its going to get even more positive in the future.

But yes, it would really help if the ladies wanted my number as soon as I told them I am a programmer :)
If you haven't checked out Parse yet, take 5 minutes and go through their quick start guide. (Documentation is written exceptionally well)

https://www.parse.com/apps/quickstart

The PFObject class alone allows me to do work in minutes that used to take hours with server setup. Also, great classes like this UITableViewController subclass are always being released.

The only thing better than this platform, is the team running it. They are taking the time to do the little things and build a great product. They answer each email they receive, they genuinely listen to user feedback, and they are always looking for new ways push the platform forward.

I am with @Skroob on this one. This is one product I look forward to using the most in 2012.

PS- If you are worried data only on a remote server, you can always serialize the object and store it in a flat file or mirror it over to a NSManagedObject and store it in CoreData.
When someone comments about growth percentages, most of the time either he doesn't know what he is talking about or is intentionally or subconsciously interpreting numbers to misguide.
Spamhaus normally collect evidence of abusive activity on their site. Look there first at the accumulated evidence. I'd have a look myself, but I don't know who you are, what domain you are using, what domain is being used to spamvertise. Perhaps you can post the spamhaus evidence file and we can take a look?

Also, Spamhaus makes recommendations. Third parties use their lists to filter spam. It sounds unusual for a Spamhaus listing to result in a domain name shutdown, unless the DNS provider did that based on a listing. So this is not really Spamhaus' mistake (if indeed their evidence listing shows a history of hosting spamvertised websites - then there is no mistake on the listing. You could be listed either because your site/host/network has a solid history of not dealing with spam/abuse reports quickly, or because a big spam operator has landed on using your services. Are you sure it was just one site (and just advertising a free ipad)?)

Yes, I understand you run a facebook static html tab content site. But that isn't a million miles away from bog standard cheap/free hosting solutions that form the bulk of spamvertised websites. Might be worth investing some time looking at the parallels and how good cheap webhosts approach dealing with spamvertised websites and spammers.

So I'd suggest finding the evidence file, dealing with the problem(s) listed, then contacting Spamhaus with details of what you've done, and what's in place to reduce future abusive activity (if it's more than one site offering a free ipad). Then do something about your web hosting solution - that seems like a very weak link - either build up a better relationship with them, or move.
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> Up to date there is No single street name for a top programmer or computer scientist in any of the Top 20 most developed countries in the world during the last 60 years.

What about Woz Way in San Jose, CA? He's hardly a computer scientist, nor even primarily a programmer, but he certainly did a fair amount of programming.

(Yes, I know this doesn't invalidate the point of the article.)
Yes, it doesn't help that a large factor of the appeal of programming is that we don't have to deal with the complex and irrational system of human interaction.
Some of the comments below are a bit scary to me, it seems everyone things architect = manager and I work in a company where this is also the prevailing thought and I just can't agree with this line of thinking. There are a lot of nuances to developing a complex application and the longer someone gets away from coding on a daily basis the more they forget these things, they forget how to "think like a programmer", they overly abstract things and trivialize things. I can't help but realize that the "architects" who I have dealt with who no longer write code always seem to be stuck in the past, they want to use older libraries, patterns, etc that they used back when they were programming even if the prevailing wisdom of the platform currently differs. I guess the only advice is to be aware of this and don't become like this, you still should be at the code level, at least part of the time, if you are truly an architect and not just a manager.
He mentions decompiling it into a human-readable form when necessary. Personally, I think that whatever standardized format is chosen should have its own, ubiquitous viewing and editing tools. I think it should be the same format we use for desktop applications and everything else. I'm not holding my breath, though.

The nice thing about text is that its easy to edit and process, right? If we make this binary format easy to edit and process in addition to being more efficient, what advantage do we get from text?
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your logic is flawed. there are plenty of activities that can make you unreachable. one example pops up ..if you are a hiker, professional or for leisure , you know you will hit spots that have no cell phone coverage.
Backwards compatibility only goes so far. It has to break someday. We need to make sure it's worth the pain when it happens.
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Importance is a subjective concept.

One opinion is that a very important Internet application will inevitably be 1-1.

Who did the FCC just hire as their new CTO? What is happening to POTS?

1-to-many systems, hacked to give an illusion of 1-1 conversations, e.g. smtp middlemen, social networking's http servers or twitter-like broadcast sms, are what we settle for today, but, imo, this is a limitation not a desired goal.
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I would change your title to either 'Why programmers don't have a high social status.' or 'Why don't programmers have a High Social Status?'. The current title implies you are making a statement, yet the question mark implies a well..question. Thanks for sharing, hope this helps. #pedantry
Yeah... the people who can make use of this sort of thing already would probably be able to do the steps of generating the code in the RAD framework so I just don't think there's much room to actually make money on something like this but maybe if integrated with something like Heroku it could have potential.
Is it just me or does it sound like this guy REALLY wants everyone to move from html/css/js back to Flash apps?!?
Your analogy is incomplete. Imagine that you spent $250K having a programmer write code for you only to see him take the code with him to a competitor and actually use it.

Opportunity acquisition isn't free. If a company invests hundreds of thousands of dollars developing contacts and relationships they belong to the business, not the employee.

I gave the example of the trade show. Think of it this way: you spend $120K at a trade show in four days. At the end of four days you have, say, 2,000 prospects and 50 great quality VIPs. Now imagine that your sales guy goes to work for your direct competitor and hands over the list.

Sorry, non-compete agreements are not legal in California.

And, yes, we used Salesforce extensively. It doesn't fix the problem.
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Marriage cannot be made equitable by the state so long as the definition of marriage differs from person to person.

Ron Paul believes that marriage licensing should simply not be. If there are no licenses, there is no discrimination. Problem solved.

It seems like you believe that everyone should know that gay marriage is ok, and that everyone should agree with your view on the matter, because it's clearly the right one.

There are people who will never agree with you, no matter the position. Your view on morality is your view, and that's all there is to it. It doesn't need justification, it simply is. Attempting to push this on other people by mandating in law is the worst form of bigotry.

That's what libertarianism is all about: freedom. Freedom for you, for me, for everyone, to do as they please, so long as it doesn't infringe on others rights. That's what Ron Paul is about: we all don't have to agree. We can believe opposite things, and still accept each other as we are.
If youd like I'd be happy to have a conversation with you about it. People are my specialty. I have a good set of engineering like tricks to keep up with folks and have a good conversation.
Adding extra JSON fields can break code if you have matching entity types, say in Java, for example, and its trying to "cast" those JSON objects to that data type I am fairly certain it will throw an exception if the JSON object has a field thats not in the Java type
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> Give the work a programmer to another programmer, and most
> of the time the comment will be negative about the work
> and the programmer.
>
> Artists don’t do that.
> Sales people don’t do that.
> MBA types don’t that.
> Politicians do that only for joking to have votes.

Ahahahahahahahahahahhh aahahhhahahahahahhha hahah. Oh. Oh that's really good. Man, whew. For a second there I thought he was living in some parallel universe where TMZ didn't exist and he was beaming this blog post from that wonderful Utopia.

Then I realized, oh, (s)he's clueless.
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Sorry for the confusion. I left off the axis labels because the graph was merely a conceptual contrast to the tired hockey stick curve.The idea of its iterative shape, relative to a hockey stick, is the important point.

But I actually like your point because its interesting (a little) to think about what the axes have to be for those shapes to work.

There is probably no confusion around the y axis representing traction - whatever metric is meaningful for the business at that stage. It could be users, or revenue, or engagement, etc.

That pesky x axis is the issue. In the second graph, it cannot be time, as many have pointed out. And that's confusing because the x axis in the first graph of the hockey stick shape is usually time. The x axis in the second graph could instead be a measure of learning, or perhaps product development as one commenter suggested. It probably works best as degree of product/market fit. As prod/mkt fit increases with iterations, so does traction.
But how much traffic does Target get? The fact that it's the third largest brick and mortar retailer means nothing at all.
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Maybe not "very little" but I would claim to fit this mold. I think it's made me an excellent programmer.

I'm... competent (at best) at math. I'm below-average as a writer. However, mechanically I do very well. I can visualize and understand how things fit together very easily. I have a sort of inherent sense of order.

That comes in really handy when working on complex systems. In computer science efficiency is often found in organizing systems, not necessarily in pure calculation (map-reduce would fall under that for instance, even if there is a strong mathematical basis).

Spatial reasoning is actually one of the biggest things I look for in hiring.
Off the top of my head, an understanding of internet architecture is probably a fundamental thing to have. IP, TCP, HTTP, DNS, etc.

http://www.amazon.com/TCP-Illustrated-Vol-Addison-Wesley-Pro...
You mean a proprietary platform that offers little to no interoperability, accessibility, composability, or searchability? No, that’s precisely the opposite of what I want.
Apparently people are having trouble with this: just because it's binary doesn't mean you can't read it. It just means you can't read it with the tools you already have on your computer. We would have to build the editing tools to read and modify whatever data format comes out of this, but we can do that and it won't be that hard.

I think we should do it anyway. I dream of a composable, computable data format that can represent anything and be sent anywhere. We could build web apps with it. We could make desktop data formats with it. I know it's ambitious, but I don't think it's impossible. I'm not expressing it terribly well because it's late. But I think this is a good idea.
So why is he going around abusing Spamhaus, accusing them of "nuking" his domain? His DNS provider acted stupidly, so let him go and attack them. And stop making will accusations and idiotic comparisons to SOPA.

And it's worth bearing in mind that all DNS providers, along with all hosting providers, are private companies who can cut you off for any reason, from non-payment of bills to the owner of the company disliking your politics. Talking of "due process" in the matter of private contracts between private individuals is misleading and wrong.
True enough. This is the pattern set by other candidates as long as I've been paying attention. It's why people don't get Paul, because he's not trying to push his views on other people by mandating them into law. As such, he's likely the only non-bigoted GOP candidate, because he's not out to force his opinions on others.

You can't really blame people - it's just such a foreign concept, so it takes time to really sink in.
So glad I wasn't alone in that thought.
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