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The use of goto[1] in this code surprises me. Isn't use of it still generally shunned?

Appearing in the Linux kernel makes me reconsider my avoidance of it[2]. A quick google throws up a discussion with Linus in 2003[3] which can be summarised as: don't blame the tool, blame the programmer and as a tool goto has a place.

[1] XKCD comic on the subject http://xkcd.com/292/

[2] On my infrequent visits to C++ land, I generally live in Python land where goto doesn't exist.

[3] http://kerneltrap.org/node/553/2131
With the rather off-the-cuff operating strategy I outlined above, your annual operating budget (including staff and production costs) would be ~$14 million. Initial start up costs (focusing mainly on equipment buys) would be about $4 million. This would get you 75 feature length films a year.

In total, producing our studio's first 75 films would cost $5 million dollars LESS than the total production cost of just one of this weekend's wide release films (in this case, Haywire, made for $23 million). Go see Haywire, and think to yourself about a) whether that movie really needed to cost what it did (bear in mind that the majority of its costs were sunk into the logistics of shooting abroad in multiple Euro locations and filling out its secondary cast with A-list talent; were the locations and secondary cast essential?) and b) whether or not you might have been more interested in the film had it been produced w/o studio constraints (meaning more nudity and explicit violence; a "hard R" or NC-17 as opposed to the film's "soft R" rating).
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I graduated College in May 2011, and joined a consulting company right after. While I had multiple job offers at the time this one looked like the best. It was to be a Java developer, I was sent to a one month Java training session, mostly review (for me at least). Finished it then spent one month "on bench" waiting to get staffed on a project (all paid time). Started working on VBA (For Excel) project where I have to code macros, and support users (around 50-70) . This was about 6 months ago, Fast forward to now: haven't coded in any other language other than VBA, and they will need me in this position for almost another year.

For the past 3 months I've been looking for jobs and had some phone interviews some recruiters reach out to me etc. I am so fed up with the project and feel like all my other skills are rotting (Java, among others). I am learning nothing new about VBA at this point and about 50% of time is spent on support. Now VBA is a nice skill to have but I think of it more as a "side dish" skill rather than an "entree" skill. I feel like my time would be better spent if I quit and was coding my own hobby projects for experience rather than doing the VBA for excel. I have a decent savings bank account from this job and have no debt what so ever.

Tomorrow at work I will probably give in my two weeks notice.
What do you guys think?
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To pile cynicism on top of cynicism, remember that recruiters have the same incentive structure as real estate agents: they make their money on deal flow, so they're motivated to spend as little time on you as possible.

Giving a recruiter your current salary allows them to be choosy about where they send you. It may keep you away from lower-paid opportunities, but also might keep you away from more senior roles.

Not generally a fan of recruiters at all, really. If you code and you're good, you'll do better on your own.
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I think what they try to avoid is anthropomorphization. It's not a good idea to make assumptions that assume human-like characteristics -else we end up with cartoons.

It's not to say that animals are incapable, but such assumptions cannot be made without the insight being held suspect.
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Could someone please expound upon the term "Kanban board", as used in this article? I am not understanding the connection between Kanban and what the author is describing, though I would like to.
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What worries me more is bad (= mean and/or stupid) comments that actually get upvoted.

Thanks for explaining what data points you and the curation team observe closely, and what trends you have noticed. You mentioned above about the goal of increasing comment quality that "There's a lot we already do about it, and probably other techniques that are yet undiscovered. This is somewhat uncharted territory." I'll renew a suggestion here that I think would be helpful.

I've been a moderator one place or another online since 1993, and I've seen a lot of online discussion forums attempt to acculturate newbies to civil, thoughtful discussion. One of the most helpful practices that I have observed over the years is making sure that people who use factual assertions to back a position in a discussion are accountable for where one would look up the facts to verify them and ensure they are not made up. (A HUGE percentage of all real-world discourse about controversial issues is based on made-up factual premises.) With that in mind, I'm trying to encourage a culture here of asking people for sources when they make a factual assertion, and providing sources in a first comment when there sources on the issue. (I try to stud most of my comments with links to sources to exemplify this.) So any time any of us see a comment that is dumb, an essential thing to do is to ask the person who made the dumb comment what the basis for the comment is. ("Do you have a source for that?" or the more abrupt "[citation needed]" as occasion demands, or "What about [detail of assertion]?" if that is better for raising the quality of the discussion.) Another thing to do is to share the growing online literature about evaluating sources, such as my very favorite link for Hacker News discussions,

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

and links about constructive online participation.

http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html

A lot of stupid comments (and, alas, I have a particular user's example in mind) result from the convenience of reading blogs rather than reading serious scholarly literature. And the paywalls around serious scholarly articles only exacerbate this problem. So I routinely upvote any comment that points to a reliable source, and especially comments that teach other HN participants how to find and access reliable sources.

In general, promoting an information-based culture here will have two effects that will help reduce the problem of dumb comments: (1) it will raise the karma and visibility of the better comments that include good information from reliable sources (or that ask for that as follow-ups to worse comments), and (2) it will be off-putting to people inclined to make it up when they are put to their proof for the things they say.
For me, music is so important that I would have to disagree and recommend not going the cheap route. Investing a pair of good quality headphones is a no-brainer. Just make sure they are comfortable.
What they want is not the problem, what they're doing is. A boycott and all out war on their existence is a perfectly rational response with respect to what they're doing.
Goto is common for error out code in C. The code that uses that mentioned in the blog code is from the linux kernel, not any exploit code.

But please, for the love of god, can we not make this discussion thread an extended conversation on the merits or horrors of goto? Pretty please?
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Just tell her like it will be, you'll have more time to spend with her in the evenings instead of sitting by the computer.
Solar is not a viable means for today's energy consumption, and it certainly won't be a viable means for tomorrow's energy consumption.

The energy race has been decided already, and the only answer to fossil fuels is Liquid Floride Thoriam Reactors (LFTR). It's an alternative form of nuclear energy that has been around since the Manhattan Project. Unlike the current nuclear power plants of today, it is impossible for a nuclear explosion to occur, there is no waste generated (well, there is about 1% waste, but the waste generated is actually a very rare metal NASA uses to power deep space satellites), and Thorium (the equivalent to Uranium) is 1000x more abundant than Uranium.

LFTR will be the worlds core energy source within 30 years. China is the only country actively developing a LFTR program- if it comes to fruition, they could be the power suppliers of tomorrow.

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Sounds like its designed to feed into the existing system
Yes, this exactly, I think this was just on Reddit the other day as I remember reading about this
This might be controversial, but have you considered opening an anonymous/throwaway github account and publishing there? I mean put them up, make an announcement, and then feel free to ignore any social pressure to work on them, at least that way the code is out there where somebody else could pick it up and improve it.

Just seems like a weird reason to not release code you intended to be open source.
And you have to combine it with a good sound card if you want to get the most of your quality headphones; i have this one http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Blaster-Titanium-Internal-SB1... and is pretty good.
Why streaming only? I should be able to download it to any device.

Also, don't forget to ban region locking: if you want to change or beat Hollywood, have the movie available as soon as possible to conveniently purchase and play from every country when you want on any platform from. Then you're really changing the game and are a viable alternative to torrents.
Instead of dismissing people's optimism with an impossible-to-refute "argument from field experience", why not write up some of your hard-won lessons so interested people can educate themselves?

I'd be very interested in an account of real world PV solar costs and hurdles by someone who's been there, done that.
Honestly, the question I'm more interested in is how they hide their tracks. From my knowledge, this can be done with a lot of "geographical" effort by going to public locations that are random and far enough from a person's normal routine, and using hardware that can't be traced to you but I wonder if they actually do this or if they normally do their activities from the comfort of their home.
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You suggested that Apple has some kind of majority market share or something. They don't. Hence, your bubble is showing.
Thanks for the link, that's the best data I've seen so far.

Should I rephrase the title to be "average intern wage?"
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Their desires may be valid. But legitimate ends do not justify destructive means.

If a bully starts punching kids on the playground, regardless of whether he was hit first, the first priority of society is to take him down. At risk of hyperbole, many insurgents have legitimate points - they just express them like retards.

This isn't saying fire everyone employed by "Hollywood". It means re-structure the institutions so they work with modern society instead of regularly attempting to counter-act human progress.
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They had recently been increasing volume (and to an extent profit) by cutting prices, of course there is only so far you can cut into prices before profit suffers.

Gruber referenced something about this not so long ago - someone had written an article showing that historically companies that do this appear good in the short term, but in the long term it is a huge danger sign.

Hence the person to whom you were replying may have been aware of the "profits are up" song RIM has been singing for a while now, but not aware of the most recent results which indicate a rude awakening is imminent.
Generally after midnight, when everyone else is asleep or quiet.
The problem exists with trying to sell non-rival digital goods as if the ability to freely copy and share them doesn't exist. This can't really be done without alienating legitimate users or draconian government measures. Making free exact copies and instant distribution is one of the best parts of digital goods, but it clashes with the current system.

Rather than try and legislate their relevance, I think the entertainment industry needs to find alternate sources of income and adapt to the system. Whether this means becoming more service oriented (with convenient streaming based subscriptions) or focusing on theaters and merchandise, but something needs to change.

Non-commercial, non-profit file sharing should be legal (having it be a felony is just ridiculous) and it doesn't make sense to try and control the web to restrict what a technology is good at. Unfortunately this issue starts with fixing copyright - which at the moment seems to be impossible.
You're doing a poor job of not continuing to discuss it with me by immediately continuing to discuss it. Of course I have an agenda: it's to hopefully enlighten some HN readers about gender discrimination in the tech industry. Most people have an agenda; you obviously did when you replied to me.

If you don't understand this discussion's direction, I'd be happy to guide you through it. For starters, it's about how video games have always been— and continue to be— gendered towards males. If you thought it was about something else, I can't really see why, since my original reply cemented the topic by pointing out the gendering in classic retro games.

> About Lara Croft and Samus Aran (which btw, were only introduced to the conversation to make the point that male/female protagonists have nothing to do with gameplay), I'd simply like to point out that I don't see what distinguish them so much from the Madonnas and other Britney Spears.

That's great! You're seeing how sexualized many female "role models" are. And just to round out my reply: we're not limited to gameplay here— story and graphics are more important. There's a reason Lara Croft was busty and Samus Aran wore a bikini under her suit despite it not making any sense, and it wasn't because girls love playing as them.
I would love to see a simple service that groups people who are willing to commit to getting up at the same time each day in order to hold each other accountable. There doesn't need to be anything significant - maybe it's just a matching service, letting people figure out for themselves how they can "check in" to confirm they are up and working at 6am (or whatever time is chosen). I know that I definitely can commit to something like this (e.g. going to the gym early) if I have at least 1 other person I'm doing it with.
Interesting post. I used to do this myself but eventually found it difficult to get up so early. I've recently been trying out something similar though.

I find it difficult to get to sleep often lying awake for up to 5 hours before falling asleep. As I am a freelancer I then tend to make up for it by sleeping in late (as I don't have a job to go to).

I have recently been following a schedule of sleeping 2 nights and then staying up 1 night. This night without sleep I use for work and it also helps fix my problem of getting to sleep for the next 2 nights. I find that I am extremely productive working through the night and gain in productivity by falling asleep more quickly and getting up earlier the other 2 days.
I agree. This is just a parlor trick.

However, I disagree that we should ignore the desktop UI in the browser. It's generally better than web UIs and there is no reason that we have to repeat the mistakes desktop UIs have made the in past.
> My inspiration was Gene Wolfe, who wrote _The Book of the New Sun_ in the wee hours, and held down a day job as a technical magazine editor.

Wow. That's really interesting. I was actually going to give this a try because of Robert Pirsig, who wrote Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Here's how he did it:

In a 1974 interview with National Public Radio, Pirsig stated that the book took him four years to write. During two of these years, Pirsig continued working at his job of writing computer manuals. This caused him to fall into an unorthodox schedule, waking up very early and writing Zen from 2 a.m. until 6 a.m., then eating and going to his day job. [1]

Funny he also writes technical literature (computer manuals versus technical magazine editor).

> the early hours are definitely some of my most creative time

This is something I've noticed too. When writing (usually essays, but sometimes code), I'm almost always more productive very late night/early morning. I don't know of any reasons (other than the obvious: you're not being distracted), nor do I know of any studies. Are there any out there?

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycle_M...
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I don't doubt that was the case for you but that's one personal experience. When it comes to a subject like sociopaths we're dealing with people and there are no absolutes when it comes to behavior so while in your case it might be false the majority of cases may not be. The OP is taking a lot of flack for not citing a source but I saw he cited a book at the very beginning, said he had done extensive research, and to me it was pretty clear that his entire comment was based on that source mentioned in the first few sentences. I think we should lay off. I really don't think he's just coming in here to make stuff up. We are just discussing things, it's not a peer review. I give him the benefit of the doubt here.
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I hadn't read about this oldie (97) before. Awesome! Good read.
Then he and you should take it up with the women who have had these negative experiences, whose prejudice you both are supposing, and not me. Do let me know how that goes.
You cited this article as evidence of discrimination. In reality, it says the gender gap is caused by gender differences in ability/preference.
Based on how far SOPA/PIPA over-reached, I am no longer convince that even 100% eradication of piracy (not likely not practical) would alter these peoples' courses. The industry is dying on its own, this is just the scapegoat.

I don't equate your wife's efforts with Hollywood's. They are socially malignant incumbents. She is a creative entrepreneur. Similarly, you shouldn't equate your wife's struggles with these institutions'.
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Seeing that another HN reader has posted our work here on HN has made our day, week and month.

Thank you so much!

THis is a concept we pitched in April 2011 at StartUp Weekend Baltimore. We focused on it some at the event, but ultimately put it on the back-burner until we witnessed the excitement for Codecademy and saw the major need for such a service.

thanks again! Back to work for us!
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It's some kind of sticky-note board / to do list thingy.

Have a look over at JoelOnSoftware (?? Or was it the Fog Creek Site?)

They have a free online version of something similar that they are trying to hit the big time with. I forget what it is called though.
On windows mobile 6.0, you could send wap pushes that linked to signed apps which would auto-execute/install.

right now, there aren't any vulns which are similar in danger that I am aware of. SMS isn't a super friendly medium for stack manipulation, and most modern mobile OS'es implement ASLR.

The browser is the more likely vector today.
I wonder if you can truly approach movies like start-ups. What would it look like to build an MVP for a movie? Is that the script? How do you get enough people to look at it to truly evaluate the concept? Perhaps this is why books that sell well are made into movies - proven customers.
I get what you're saying, but I am not sure it does.

When I first arrived on HN, I was unsure about what was appropriate to post. I learned by reading the comments and contributing where I had something useful to share.

Now, after a year or two, I often hear or read a story and think HN has to see this. Then I step back and really weigh whether it fits HN or if I just think it's cool. Often, I end up not submitting. By starting out slow I realized HN isn't popularity contest, but an important community.

That was my experience anyway, YMMV.
Depends on the metrics used, Apple has 52% of smartphone profit:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2011/11/04/apple-t...
You are talking about Trello from Fog Creek.
What about donating $1.5 to the EFF for every $1 you spend on movies/music?
You're right that US citizens still have rights when dealing with the government wherever we might be. However, the 4th amendment protects US citizens against unreasonable search and seizure. But crossing the border gives the gov't a reason to search...
Just tried this out on my ubuntu laptop (3.0.0-15-generic) and it worked like a charm. Scary.
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This seems highly related to a recent poll - how many hours of sleep do you need a night?

For example, if I tried this, I would have to go to bed at around 7:30pm at night. For a number of reasons (including eating dinner at 6pm), this is completely infeasible. A shame too, since a few hours of uninterrupted time would be great.
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