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there's only one free lunch? why did i assume that apple pays for their employees' meals like google does?
Exactly, Twitter is acting on behalf of Government. That doesn't somehow make it "ok" -- understandable? Yes. But it's not the same thing as a private enterprise deciding they don't want to republish Nazi tweets.
Brevity is not orthogonal to clarity; it is clear that overly verbose code is not as readable, just because e.g. it doesn't fit on your screen (or in your head) all at once.
All of life is trade-offs.

Aside from that, though: Who can't live alone for 90 days? Seriously? When Virgin America NYC/SFOs are sub-$200 roundtrip?
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But the great disadvantage of those compilers (CoffeeScript and ClojureScript) is that the generated code doesn't matches up with the lines of the source code so its debugging is much more difficult.
This isn't like money, you can tell whose files are whose: people have their login information and could be permitted to download those files they uploaded in the first place.

And why would people want infringing files back, anyhow? They could just download those from somewhere else. Also, it wouldn't be too bright to tell the courts that you wanted some pirated files back. The files that nobody else had a copy of are the ones that people will need returned to them.
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But where do you put the light rail? Put it on an elevated track, and that property value change goes the other way (noise, visual pollution, loss of sunlight). OK, so put it in the middle of the street. If it's a dedicated lane, not only do you suck up space from the cars, you have to figure out how to squeeze in platforms, and the light rail has to stop at both platforms and intersections making it painfully slow (take the Boston green lines as an example). If it isn't a dedicated lane, it's a streetcar and you have cars constantly squeezing around it and everybody has to stop to let people run into the middle of the street to get on, plus the odd traffic patterns created at every intersection (Toronto).

If you have the space for a dedicated right-of-way you might as well go full out and make high-cap rail. Otherwise, I see light rail as the worst compromise in-between subways and buses. There's a reason Manhattan has essentially eliminated all at-grade light rail, and elevated rail still exists only in the relatively poor neighborhoods: wherever the subway doesn't run, buses are best at filling the gap without destroying the street-level environment.
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I think those job postings are seriously skewed. "Python" is by itself not a web framework, whereas "Ruby" is often short for when people are referring to Ruby on Rails. Do a search for Django and I bet the numbers start looking very different. Include all the python web frameworks and you start to see a level playing field.
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I wonder if wildbit considered selling the product to someone who could give it some love?

Perhaps it could have been similar to this recent story: http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2012/01/25/the-inside-story-of-...
> Apple pays for new employees' lunches. According to a former employee, "There is only one free lunch, and it's on your first day."

That's what practically every company is like, isn't it? Has been in my experience. Except most companies also buy you lunch on your last day, if you leave on amicable terms. And I guess you get free lunch if someone else gets hired on your team and you get invited along.
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Its going to cost me some karma but I have to agree with you. Really fluffy content, almost has a self-help feel to it. Don't get me wrong, its as worthy as most blog posts to be on the internet, but getting submitted to HN and being a top post? Maybe there are a lot of HNers that have gotten beaten up by iOS and can sympathize.
It probably isn't even illogical. He makes money in a way that heavily depends on him--his morale and how much work he is willing to put in. I would not be surprised if going on a vacation actually motivated him enough to be a good deal from even a purely fiscal perspective.
Dotcom is being extradited for, inter alia, copyright crimes.

While reading the article, did anyone else wonder whether Ars got the permission of the rightsholders to the images hosted on kimble.com?

Maybe Kim should commence proceedings to have Sean Gallagher extradited for copyright infringement.
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If I've said that one, it is because there is a compiler from Go to JavaScript under (advanced) development with several advantages over another compilers:

+ The lines numbers in the unminified generated JavaScript match up with the lines numbers in the original source file.

+ Generates minimized JavaScript.

+ Allows many type errors to be caught early in the development cycle, due to static typing.

https://github.com/kless/GoScript
I have yet to find myself in a situation after 15 years of programming when the primary problem was "redundant key-tapping".

The more languages I learn, the less I care about syntax and the more I care about being able to express solutions to problems. In that respect, then, CoffeeScript has been no help to me whatsoever, since semantically, it's no different than JavaScript.
Absolutely. I think a concatenative language would be great for this. It’d be easy to target for a wide variety of languages, statically typable if you like, amenable to analysis and optimisation, and much less inherently complex than JavaScript to parse and evaluate.

Moreover, it’d be trivial for browser authors to implement, so for a very low investment there could be a huge return. You can write a basic runtime for a full-featured concatenative language in a few hundred lines of C, and a compiler for it in a few dozen lines of Haskell.
Lots of free lunches: the dregs left over after the salespeople have their noon meetings.
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Thanks for warning, I've updated the G+ post!
++

My line of thinking lately is to try to solve a big problem on a small scale very completely, with very few resources. If I can do that, maybe I can inspire the next person to step it up.
People were using megaupload as a backup service? They don't have the originals anymore?
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I think the GitHub project page is fine for someone interested in the development and the technical side of the language. The fun is at http://roy.brianmckenna.org/ =D
How do you think we made $13 billion in profit? Buying everyone lunch? cackle
Excellent post. Out of idle curiosity, are you putting a degree in law to specific use these days or is this area of the law simply a hobby for you?
I actually found this post inspiring and your comments in thread have been helpful with BNR
I do wonder, though, as to the direction of the causation arrow. I know perfectionism is well correlated with depression. Perfectionism is also well correlated with working long hours. Maybe it's the depression, or rather, the perfectionism caused by depression that causes the long hours?
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For a while now I've pondered the similarity between Twitter and RSS. Was there any effort at all into making a shorter version of RSS that uses a central naming authority?

What are the technical limitations to replicating the usefulness of Twitter with a standard like RSS?
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The thing is that twitter is a product, where rss is a technology. Replicating it means replicating twitter.

Note that in the beginning, twitter even provided rss feeds for public data.
Well, i'm not saying there's never capital investment - i'm saying the us tax structure favors keeping that investment as small as possible.

From what little i recall of berkshire hathaway's history, textile automation has been getting far more powerful and cheaper for like the last 150 years. lot's of textile companies went out of business from betting the farm on an expensive new machine, and not staying competitive 5 years out - because the new machines are that much better.

So with biotech or something, you have all this extra hassle. Super tight environmental control. Special heating and cooling for different resources. Special containment for the lubrication of the machines, so the aerosolized grease won't touch the stuff you're working on - all kinds of crap. basically, all the complexity you have to deal with, plus a million extra constraints.

found the old link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122488966230768509.html

Fred Smith's argument is it's easier to make money with debt than it is by actually making stuff. US business is forced to optimize around the cheapest possible automation. Maybe that's a good thing, robots keep getting cheaper. Maybe it's a bad thing, it's really hard to get the massive capitalization for these fancy future industries.
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This story is very sensational and pretty wildly inaccurate. Like many companies, your experience at Apple will vary based on which group you join. I wouldn't call my series of interviews more daunting than any other major Silicon Valley company, and there's no "sneaky effect" of having you set up your machine. I had someone help me set up all the software I needed.

These types of articles that synthesize a few anecdotes from a particular group into a grand vision of the inner workings of the company are getting pretty tired. Apple is a great company, but the day-to-day really doesn't differ that much from most other companies.
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I think that working long hours is the fruit of depression not the opposite. And I think there are other factor that leads to depression like the civil and professional status.
Count me in as one hardline anarcho-capitalist / libertarian who is opposed to government intervention in something like this. I oppose anything like "government" that purports to do anything more than act as a collective extension to our innate right to self-defense; and take the Zero Aggression Principle seriously.
I know that "public comment" (like whitehouse.gov petitions or wherever) gets a lot of flack, but administrative agencies are legally required to consider your comments on pending rule changes and the like. The Copyright Office is such an entity.

From having friends work on these online implementations of commenting systems in the past, I know that useful, well thought out comments are taken seriously. So, feel free: http://www.copyright.gov/1201/comment-forms/
Wow not to just be snide but that was about 4 paragraphs of fluff plugging a book.

Sounds mildly interesting but how did that wind up on the frontpage?
What are you trying to say? Germany compels companies to suppress Nazi propaganda in Germany. (I'm assuming, the article isn't that specific.) That is the government telling citizens what they cannot say (e.g. censorship).

The difference between censored speech in Germany (or America: we have limits on free speech, too) and someplace like China is German society has agreed to limit certain offensive speech where as Chinese citizens don't really have a say in the matter.
There is nothing fair about that.
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That's not an option button on iOS. It leads to a menu of 'secondary' menu items, that are hierarchically on the same level as the other tabs.
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I have in fact received large client-owned files over megaupload and rapidshare (they emailed me the URL). I don't really know why they didn't stage them on their own server (that's how we do it) but when trying to work smoothly with non-nerd biz dev people I'm certainly not going to push back over doing something else for one minute every couple of weeks.
> The risks you describe are all true, but mostly apply at traffic lights as well: a cyclist still has to navigate into the right-hand lane at a junction if turning right from a two-lane (or more) entry road.

No, they don't - as a cyclist, you can do a hook turn: http://www.cyclingtipsblog.com/2009/05/the-hook-turn/. Even if this is technically illegal in your jurisdiction, I'd still do it, since it's much safer than trusting car drivers to do the right thing.

Solid islands are also dangerous, since they narrow the road and most drivers will try and push past rather than slow down to cyclist speeds. Neat fact: the handlebars on my old bike are higher than the wing mirror on a VW Golf. How do I know this? They passed me on a roundabout, and the wing mirror passed under my handlebars. Lucky I ride a bike with flat bars, and not a racer.
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There's a few YC companies hosting Grubwithus meals right now too if you're in the Bay Area and want some first hand knowledge.

http://www.grubwithus.com/ycombinator
It's interesting to see an incubator-backed startup leveraging Kickstarter. Definitely a pretty cool concept though.
In this context this looks somewhat similar to Haskell's type classes, and maybe to a lesser, or greater(?), extent C#'s extension methods. The latter I guess lacks the concept of the "protocol" as extensions methods live at the namespace level in a way (they're wrapped in a static class, but this is somewhat meaningless). Then again, the protocol concept here seems to be mainly used for the same purpose of having a namespace for storing implementations and also importing them?
Having released my first app at the end of October, I can confirm building the app is at the highest "only 50%". Having had very little interest for it. (less than 10 buys) I now fully understand marketing has a much larger role than a developer like me would have liked. 2012, I will learn iOS, yet I will also learn marketing. My first app was created with Titanium too, yet I feel it is important to learn iOS.
I had a professor who offered a novel scheme that left me pretty happy with take home exams. Students are usually turned off because a good take-home is really, really hard. What this professor did was give you the exam, mark incorrect problems, and then if the class average was poor, give you a second copy. You would turn the second copy in a few days later, and you would get some fraction of the credit for any improvement in your score. (Say you got a 60 the first time and an 80 the second time, you might end with a 65-70)

The result was that, after being challenged by difficult problems that require your complete focus, you are given some feedback on what you got wrong, at which point you go back to the book to work out what the real answer is. That revision step is key; the promise of some recovery points is mostly just motivation to take it seriously

I felt like those exams were huge learning experiences. The caveats are: it is more work for the professor; this was an upper division course, so students were serious and the class size was small; the best problems are hard and open ended.
I think non-competes must be enforceable in California since I've been slapped with one while working for a CA-based company. That said, I suspect that they're not easily enforceable or frequently enforced.

It seems to me that the idea behind this was not fundamentally price-fixing but eliminating the kind of disruption to projects (and inevitable leakage of ideas and technology) you'd get from having people hopping around from company to company. Price fixing may well have figured into it, but I doubt it was the main reason.

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This makes sense to me. I bought a house full of furniture when I moved to North Carolina, all from CraigsList. Two years later I sold those exact items for a $300 profit.
Seems similar in concept as http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/supermechanical/twine-li... but offers a different UI/event-action model and few more integrated services. I wonder if these tiny-sensor-computer makers can come up with a standard so we can remotely control any of them without knowing the specific APIs.
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I'm an early staged startup. I've built a beautiful social playlist that can be embedded into every web platform (wordpress, website, facebook, etc.).

It's gaining its first users very slowly.

As part of my attempts to understand my user's needs I also built a dashboard where I share my internal analytics, tasks, bugs, features, income & expenses, communications with other companies and users. I share this dashboard with my power users (altogether something like 10 people).

The responses of the power users are overwhelming. They seem to be really enjoying this honesty and feel as if they there are taking an active part in my startup's life. I think this internal tool I've developed has greater potential than my original social playlist application.

I am thinking of giving this internal tool a chance, but I don't know if it's worth it. Making this internal tool into a standalone product will take a couple of months.

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I'm actually confused. I remember Kickstarter specifically saying that they didn't fund startups back when I applied to them.
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This is one of those great concepts that has a "this needs to happen" feeling, and it's a matter of who's going to do a great job with it. Looks like Ninja Blocks is on the right track.

However, as I think about the concept more, I'm having a difficult time finding a useful case for the concept. I think it's just because I'm not creative enough. So what would you, Hacker News reader, use Ninja Blocks for?
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This article just doesn't ring true to me at all. I am a developer in the Bay Area. I have helped recruit other developers from Google and other dominant Bay Area companies. I have not yet encountered the idea that developers ever feared career reprisals when leaving Facebook, Google, etc. Could be selection bias, I guess.
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When Cisco was booming, they made a big deal about the metric of revenue per employee, which hit $1m. Apple and Google both exceeded this number in 2008, and with decent margins.
I think you'll have a tough time convincing their engineers that their salary is out of proportion to the value they created.

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You need to have a coffee and lighten up. Nobody is making fun of redheads.

1. Lots of people think redheads are sexy.

2. The implication of "redheaded stepchild" is that "it's obviously not your kid" or possibly even a bastard.

3. I'm fat, and a Rails developer, and I don't get my knickers in a twist every time somebody makes the "fat models" metaphor about good MVC design.

No offense, but your sensitivity to your kids' redheadedness is far more likely to make them think it's a bad thing than some random colloquial phrase.
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Integers and decimals are both stored as 8 bytes. So one record takes 42 bytes. After compression it takes about 8 bytes ( I use FOR - frame of reference) compression and it works really well with decimal numbers (check the range of decimal numbers in lineitem.tbl file - usually you encode them in just a few bits). So I can stream about 10 million records per second from my disk. Which makes it exactly 180 seconds for 1.8B rows ( CUDA calculations are done in the background process).
Records are decompressed in GPU and processed there.
Actually the main bottleneck is not the disk access but the latency of CUDA calls - each call takes about 15 ms and when you process the entire file in chunks of ,say, 6 million records, it really adds up.