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So what you're saying is that this corporation is made up of people?
You'd be hard pressed to generate 2^16-1 ids in a millisecond, so yea - it's probably overkill.
You know, up until this comment of yours, it hadn't bothered me that you were an employee of google defending their actions most of the time on HN. I still assumed you were being somewhat objective.

But I have finally lost that trust. It is extremely hard to believe your objectivity when you equate what happened with "pushing the envelope" and "innovation".
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True. I did say you had to stretch things a bit. I was suggesting YC News as Paul's tavern. A public gathering place.
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This is awesome! But I want to be able to save my preferences on it, either by permalinking them (useful-ish) OR in localStorage (better) or both (whoa yeah party)

So it could have a 'save to localStorage' button, then a list of your previous saved configurations in a side panel?

Excellent work!
BTW the person who posted this was Nelson Mattos.
Also - is the bootstrap generator on github?
Startup idea++: devise a way to eliminate the need for Congress, period.

Challenge is to strike balance between letting all citizens vote directly on law-making, while preventing fraud and allowing quality viable legal craftwork to occur. Corruption could still occur, but instead of only having to buy the votes of a 51-60%+ of a mere 500-ish Congressmen, one would have to buy the votes of 51%+ of 300 million US citizens.
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The page says "be sure to identify yourself as a constituent, and give your mailing address for verification." Is there a technical/legal reason for this, or is it mainly etiquette?

I've donated to Franken in the past and much of my family still resides in MN but I'm in CA now. Is there any reason for me not to call? (Would it also be bad form to send a check with a letter saying 'cash-me if you reverse position' -- is this tantamount to the corporate donations that lead to such legislation?)

(I'll be calling CA reps, too, but just curious about all this.)
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That's a rather small bagel (75g). The issue here is mass. Bagels are much denser than donuts. Calorie Count has 285 calories in a medium, plain toasted bagel (100g) and 239 calories in a 60g medium glaze yeast donut.

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The internet is big, but please don't think for a moment that awareness of SOPA/PIPA is big at all . . . "normals" have absolutely zero clue about what it is . . . even many who aren't "normals" aren't aware.

As tech/internet professionals, we often forget the echo chamber we live in . . . we all read the same publications and participate in the same communities. Awareness/publication outside those communities is negligible. As an example, take a look at the blackoutsopa campaign on Twitter . . . 10,000 people (I'm one of them, by the way) out of 180 million on Twitter?? . . . the most recent claim I saw is that those 10,000 people have 20 million followers . . . in aggregate, sure . . . wouldn't be surprised if it was a net of only 1 million . . . if that.

That said, it's impressive that the anti-SOPA/PIPA campaign has had an outsized impact for its population, but there is a LONG way to go before the rest of the internet has even the slightest hint anything is even going on . . . and I do think FB/Google/Wiki/Tumblr blackouts would be needed to get there.
That's great to hear, Jonathan. I personally know two of the people on that team and they're brilliant programmers but never saw their view from the outside. I'm glad to hear you're getting amazing support from them.

If you're enjoying it a lot and love to program, you should consider applying there too.
Number of sales. BCC (almost) always sells for $29.95, and the difference between the three in processing costs is rounding error.
from the article:

"Starting salaries for smart programmers from top schools are flirting with the $100,000 mark. "

By that logic, we better start churning out more doctors, lawyers and CEOs because, gosh, the salaries for those folks are flirting way way past the $100k mark. And we can't have that!

"One of the reasons the elite US colleges seem to turn out so few computer science majors every year is that they are only drawing from a narrow pool of mostly white and asian males."

Ooooh... we definitely can't have that! There's also a startingly low percentage of redheads and part-time harpists. Let's fix this, stat.
>> The abstraction is just barely enough to get the job done [...]

> Or, in other words, the perfect amount...

Well no, because the job doesn't end when it's "done". Minecraft is the perfect example:

In the earliest versions of the game, blocks were all basically homogenous cubes of some material, so they didn't need to be oriented. Later, blocks were added that did need to be rotated in various ways, e.g. torches, stairs. But each of these blocks had their own private system for choosing, storing, and rendering their orientation. These systems were often similar, but not identical. At this point, roughly half the blocks in the game are orientable in some way and there is still no generic orientation system. Such a system would have avoided massive amounts of redundant code, prevented many bugs, made the user experience more consistent, and made various 3rd party tools much easier to develop.

"You ain't gonna need it" is a cop-out. You are going to need some things. The trick is anticipating which things, and it will definitely pay off if you can guess correctly.
Your comment could be said for any creative activity so you're not alone in your fear. Art, music, writing, etc... all take guts to release and hear the criticism. Thing is, hearing criticism gets easier the more you hear it. Take what you can from the criticism and keep improving.
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Perhaps I should rephrase my previous comment to reflect some vagueness associated with the subject. While in a sense rights can exist for all things of all circumstances, they effectively do not exist for the those who cannot utilize them. Someone can give up their rights to something can they not?

But more to the point, the example you gave is not an example of a 'natural right'. I am assuming you are using 'fundamental' and 'natural' interchangeably, for the phrase fundamental right is something generally understood in the context of a legal system. And when talking about rights in a legal context, those rights which haven't been granted do not exist, and we are both aware that women were not granted the right to vote until 1920.

Since the right to vote certainly wasn't a legal right until 1920, one can only assume you aren't talking about legal rights, but rather some ideal you hold to be true. The idea that there are certain standards of morality and humanity that all beneficent bodies must observe is something that loosely falls within the realm of "natural rights", ie those rights that have not been bestowed by human law. And the idea that the right to vote exists beyond the realm of human law and government is absurd, as I am sure you are well aware.

If you are of the mind that fundamental rights are those which adhere to a certain well accepted set of values ( as seen in the case of UDHR ), then this is really a discussion on ethics, and therefore any difference of opinion concerning a set of 'fundamental rights' will be arbitrary.
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Monopoly can be more restrictive actually. For example, if it is only a monopoly, the institution can grant the monopoly but restrict patent transfer/sale. Consider that most patent trolling companies are using patents they acquired, it may be a good thing. But as long as the current system setup goes, it is full property rights you have over your intellectual "product" (i.e. right to use, transfer, exclude and destroy)
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Can we get a little perspective? It's been less than a day since this came to light.

How about giving the people who are investigating a reasonable amount of time to investigate what happened, ferret out who is responsible and and figure out how best to move forward?
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Wow. Seems like half of the senate co-sponsored. =/

Btw, who designed this? Was it the OP?

This could be laid out sliiiiightly neater. Takes so long to get to the bottom. Do we really need that big of a picture of each senator & does each seneator need "Tips on calling/emailing". Makes me want to do my own. hmmmmmm.
one good reason would be because setters and getters are way easier to mock out than direct access to member variable
And we all want to have code tested , don't we ? :-)
Considering it's dead-stupid obvious to anyone with half a brain, what exactly makes you think Google isn't going to do everything you mention?
"A blanket apology and correction, on a site that the vast majority of these businesses will never read, is simply a cop out and wholly insufficient."

What about the original post gave you the impression that the blog post was the end of things? How about giving the people who are dealing with this a reasonable amount of time do handle it?
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No, it is not a valid point. A company must take responsibility for its employees or contractors. It hired them. It is responsible for them. It must be held accountable for them. Why? Because a company is its employees. And yes, a few rotten apples will spoil the party. You judge a company by its worst employees, not its best. That's the way you judge any group. That's why a group worth admiring has the highest standard for membership and mercilessly purges its ranks of bad apples.
Now that they've officially admitted that they were doing it, have you "noticed your confusion"? No amount of poor fit with previous actions offsets admitting that a Google team was actually doing this, no matter how inefficient it seems to us to have been doing it. :/
I used to be a teacher and received training to instruct exactly as you describe. The idea is that students are supposed to ask each other first, and if no one else in the group knows, then they ask the teacher. I have very mixed feelings about the push towards group work, but I will say that in much of the inner-city, asking a peer for help on anything is considered pitiable weakness. So the idea of getting kids to learn to work together and help each other when they can, is, at least in it's conception, not altogether terrible.
Well, after pressing backspace twice to erase the already entered numbers... It's just amazingly bad :-)
What would go a long way towards fixing this is having an organization plan that's free, but only allows public repositories. That way the code could be entrusted to more than a single individual as it is now. Commit rights are one thing, but having ultimate control over the repository is usually limited to one person.
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Simple answer - the vast majority programmers rarely see more than rudimentary math on most projects, unless those projects are specifically math orientated (actual sciences, for example).

The rest of us working on our sites, platforms, apps and what-have-you usually only see anything resembling math when dealing with things like UI and Interaction models, or typically soft-math areas like rating systems and segmentation.

Possibly inflammatory, but perhaps a better question would be: why do most programmers work so hard at pretending they're engineers?
Doubtful. A small store was $100/mo and probably made up the bulk. Wouldn't be surprising if some of those 1050 weren't paying for whatever reasons. Still, they clearly built a good business.
Interesting... if true, what this could mean is that virtually no-one who is taught programming at school ends up enjoying it. You have to be one of the ones who seeks it out before you are required to learn it, otherwise you're not the kind of person who would tolerate it as a job?
How is this different from KissInsights?
It doesn't have to be well explained. Instructions for antibiotic prescriptions from a licensed doctor/pharmacy tells you to take the full course of antibiotics and not quit part way through.

I wonder what other prescription instructions he disregards... drug interaction warnings? You don't get to disregard those just because you're not familiar with the biochemistry involved.

Or, what about, "Do not look into 1W laser with remaining good eye?" If you don't know what a laser is or why it might be bad to look into it, you either research the issue, or you follow those instructions blindly (pun intended). You don't blow them off and then ask HN why looking into class 4 lasers is bad after both your eyes are damaged.

It's good that they finally asked, though. It should have been asked a long time ago, and not on HN, I think that's the point of the downvotes.
Imagine if physics was done this way.

But it is...

1) We test theories with experiments to see whether they fail for that particular "input", we don't prove them correct.

2) One of our two best theories (QFT, the other being GR) doesn't even make sense, mathematically.

In fact the great challenge of physics today is that we have neither experiment nor mathematical rigor to stand on: http://groups.google.com/group/sci.physics.research/browse_t...

A theory that gives correct results for a limited range of phenomena but isn't absolutely correct or mathematically consistent is still useful. Same for programs, I would think.
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> In the early days programming was considered a subdiscipline of mathematics

But then the Electrical Engineering guys come and conquer, then CS evolve closer to EE than to Math.

And these days, well... your boss always look at you and say that does not want to now about math or performance, he want to know about accomplished deadlines and nice UIs.
Reading your post reminded me of this interesting TED talk that echo's some of the problems you raise:

http://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_mwenda_takes_a_new_look_at_a...
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And how, exactly do you propose to do that?

It's a very hard problem.
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Many modern web apps where many programmers are employed are simply IO glue (request in, database in/out, web page response out) and don't involve many algorithms other than sorting and using hashtables and trees.
I feel what you're putting down. It is very hard to explain to people what it is like when you are at the point of a project where you are not really even looking for answers yet. No, you're still determining what the questions are. You're still figuring out what the "what" is. They just don't get it, but I really think you have to go through that to produce a useful product.
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I think that what is termed "totally drug resistant TB" is more a matter of semantics as the article points out. I was in medical training in Southern California about 8 years ago and spent some time with a large county tuberculosis surveillance unit as part of a public health assignment. There were about five cases of then termed "multi-drug resistant TB" whereby the patients were either confined to their homes or an isolation unit in a hospital. They were under mandatory confinement and observation, enforceable by law. I had no idea that such cases existed at the time. I would refer people to this wikipedia article which has good information:
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I think there's a certain stigma to the word 'programmer' kind of like 'code monkey.'
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I just began work on a new project that was half modeled. I initially tried to understand the existing model and wasted quite a few weeks for understanding that incomplete model. My problem is had i spent that time understanding the system...testing it as i would test a black box, i believe i could have constructed a better model..Ofcourse, this doesn't say anything about pros or cons of either approach..

And am beginning to get annoyed at the boiler plate generated by OOPS style programming.

But, to be honest, creating a model without looking at data first doesn't appeal to me either. I guess models will have evolve in sync with tests.. i.e: generate model/hypothesis,test, refine model/hypothesis test, repeat.
The part about being "Dangerous" is either a joke or incredibly naive.

However I understand where he is coming from, it reminds me of when I learned Objective C / iPhone. I made a decent (Read:Not Great) game in 3 months of programming in my free time (Das Boot:The Hunt for U-505)
The code was ugly and terribly dependent but I made 3k right out of the gate and I still get a deposit of around $50 a month from Apple 3.5 years later!

Objective C feels "easy" now and my code is clean, however it's hard not to be humbled by what you still don't know. I have been doing a lot of Server/Php/JSON/iPhone in my bootstrapping and it's really amazing how far I've come.

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Truthfully, I don't care about quality if I am starting out... I need results first. You'd sell me the book with results, you'll enrich the deal with how to do it right.

Focus on creating 'working' JavaScript, along the way encourage proper formatting/syntax, labeling, etc as you go. Useful type-in in examples are great.

As an example I needed to make a field input aid for a project, this one would be an alternative to a [YYYYMM] text entry, where they click on the tool button and are presented in a popup (ala date/time picker) with a range of months around the current date (or range specified in the calling code) where the user could quickly click the appropriate textual month/year and it fills in the form... also pulls the current field data into the script.

Examining date time picker code - I got it figured out. The books I've bought/checked don't seem to cover (or cover well enough to recognize it) what I was looking for. So an annotated cookbook approach I feel would be a good and mix in the style/management along with it.

I'm sure others working mainly on the backend code wanting some more front end support code would be interested in such a book as I would.
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I like to think that CS is just a different approach to math.

Of course, I say this as somebody who likes Haskell where the programmers work really hard at pretending to be mathematicians :)

However, even when I'm writing in other language, I think about things in terms of math. Additionally, my CS courses so far have all been heavily influenced by math, except for systems that was much more heavily influenced by EE.

So, at least for me, programming is very much like math. Just shinier. And I do think that more math--or at least mathematical thinking--would help most programmers.

However, the rant against testing is just silly. Tests are not a replacement for math--they augment it. We need tests because, at heart, CS is an engineering discipline: math is just a tool we use very pervasively.

Haskell is one of the more extreme typed functional languages, and yet Haskell programmers are very amenable to testing. In fact, Haskell programmers tend to go above and beyond normal testing: we use property-based testing (QuickCheck). Instead of just having unit tests, we actually generate random tests.

Besides, lets look at physics: they have great mathematical models. However, as soon as you actually apply physics--basically engineering--you need to test everything extensively. There is a reason we have exhaustive crash tests, after all.

So: math is good for programmers. Tests are also good for programmers. The two cannot replace each other.
Perhaps we should consider that Programmers its a super class of Scientist, Engineer, Designer, Technician.

And that not everybody should know everything about the subclases.

If you think of yourself as developer(?), and Rick as a mathematician its fine!; the problem comes when Rick think you should behave as a mathematician because you are a programmer or viceversa.
Yes. In the absence of copyright/patent/trademark, everyone can use every bit of knowledge they come across.

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