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Recent post on this I bookrmarked: http://perlbuzz.com/2008/11/the-evolution-of-perl-frameworks...

Personally, I also glue together CGI, DBI, etc., and I have no desire to use a framework. Why do you? Is something in particular cumbersome?
If it's just a single menu command you can just use the standard way of doing it for an app on OS X: Open System Preferences, go to the Keyboard & Mouse preference pane, click on the Keyboard Shortcuts tab, click on the plus and fill out the form to add your shortcut (remember that Menu Title should be the exact title of the menu item, including any ellipses(…)).
concur: catalyst gets the job done.

I'm using a homebrew haskell framework now, happs with StringTemplate for the view.
When do you use Couchdb then?
Turkish is good in this respect. They even have have regular numbers from 11 to 19.
I am surprised no one mentioned TeXmacs ( http://www.texmacs.org/ ) yet. It is a WYSIWYG editor that can both import from (works reasonably well) and export (works perfecly) to TeX.

By using it you can always do things nearly as quickly as you would using MS Word, and then fine tune things later if you know LaTeX. Every time I want to do something I think it is painful using LaTeX (like complex nested tables) that's the route I take - it works really great for me.

Some folks here might also like the fact that it is entirely written in Scheme.
So you want to be a what? ...programmer?
Close to 1000 startup jobs on Startuply right now, and almost half of them are in SF/Silicon Valley.

http://www.startuply.com
If two people start a company are they founders or co-founders?
Is the word founder used only if there is one person starting a company? If you have two or more, are you automatically labeled as co-founders?

I see a lot of people use co-founder when there are more than one starting team members, but the founders of our country weren't called the "Founding Co-Founders".

Also, if you type and/or say the word founder ten times, it starts to lose all meaning.
It's not usability testing at all: in a usability test we're interested in how people use the product, not how they say they use the product (although that can be interesting too).
It's probably not even considered a framework, but I had done a lot of web programming a while ago and I loved the Template Toolkit http://template-toolkit.org/
Moving from a linear to a parallel programming model
I got ESTJ and I'm INTJ/INTP.

Sensors are more in the moment, and intuitives like to abstract. It'd be difficult to make a variable for that one.

Interestingly, I got Extrovert even though I tested 19/1 in favor of Introvert on the real test. Must have too many posts with the word "friend."
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They didn't quite do it.

They made a simulation which matches reality pretty well, but they worked backwards: they knew the value they wanted and kept tweaking the simulation till it worked.

That's not quite as exciting as being able to calculate it from first principles.
And Subversion is perfectly appropriate for your uses! TortoiseSVN is a snap to use (and it's not the only great svn GUI out there), and Subversion seems to make sense to people. The only reason I see to use git is if you're trying to keep a bunch of developers who are running off in different directions to maintain a somewhat coherent codebase. Or if developers want their own playground. Even then, though, I worked at a company that used centralized Subversion, but almost every developer used git-svn locally. Different tools for different applications!
I'll agree with that :) I did chose an overly controversial title. My apologies.
"We're software engineers. It is our job to understand more complex software models. Git's usability isn't terrible, it is just a more complex model that requires a more thorough understanding of the underlying principles."

My job is not to spend time understanding how to use the version-control flavor of the week -- my job is to write software.

You may not realize it, but you're advancing the usual, dressed-up, ad hominem attack of the perspective-challenged nerd: "tool Y is EASY if you just try to learn it!" (the implication being that if you don't want to spend time on a yak-shaving expedition to learn tool Y -- when tool X works just fine -- then you're lazy, dumb, or both.)

Version control is a tool. Good tools let me do my job and get out of the way. Bad tools force me to spend a lot of time "understanding" them before I can be productive.
if you're looking to do any perl development, use:
strawberry perl and perl moose.

http://strawberryperl.com/
http://search.cpan.org/~drolsky/Moose-0.61/lib/Moose.pm

forget catalyst at least for a little while. perl moose makes oop perl a little bit easier, however it should go without saying; understand perl oop first.

http://www.p3rl.org/OOP

if you're using perl cgi and dbi, these are two the best modules written i think. lots to learn in there, keep looking.
Well you can't bone a chicken drumstick very easily with a bread knife, so why would one try to use CouchDB as a relational database. I really fail to see the point of this article, particularly given the title
76% (506/667) were NT as of six months ago.

Only 7 people out of 667 were neither N nor T (i.e. SF), whereas statistically 37% of the general population should fall into this category.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=204240
Better to take it than allow it to fall into the hands of some hoodlum/criminal. Seriously I think that would be some people's mindset/excuse. Especially in the 'Broken Window' case.
Well your first line is CouchDB really sucks at doing some things, so it's not so bad :)

Where you (found that) CouchDB did fit, how did you find it?
Try using styles in Word, it gets you the equivalent of class and tag name selectors. The UI for it is quite buried in pre-ribbon versions of Word, but there are useful defaults and you can somewhat-easily define your own inline (= character) and block (= paragraph) styles.
Possibly a new user would be allowed to submit but their vote would count for nothing. Only if a established users voted for it would it stand a chance if making the front page. Some people are bound to be better article finders than commentors and their input could be valuable.
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Titles are meaningless. Especially the difference between minor variations of the same effective title.

In the end, both of those are the same thing.
doesn't really matter, but I'd say that the co-founder label is more appropriate since it tells the person that you didn't do the whole thing all by yourself.

your other thing doesn't really make sense, they were called the founding fathers...which by itself means that there was more than 1.
Even down south in Germany it's dark. (Note, New York and Rome are around the latitude.)
overestimating :)
I suppose that's where I just don't understand things: What benefit does committing locally bring? Why not just not commit at all until you have that "carefully polished jewel"? Unless of course you're working on a change large enough to justify it's own branch, in which case the point is moot.

The sideways push I get, but given that I use a laptop I find it irrelevant to me.
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Unfortunately, I think too many people are using Fad-Driven Development where you use the newest and coolest tools even if they're totally inappropriate. The parade of articles about how Relational Databases Are Dead (even if your data is relational?) doesn't help, so I see this post as a nice counterpoint. The title is indeed trollicious.
Hindsight is always 20/20... Their point would have been greatly enhanced had they written this same article BEFORE the financial crisis.
> The map isn't dangerous in and of itself, but it becomes dangerous when the mapmaker gives the impression that it gives more detail than it actually does.

I agree. I've seen this misused quite a lot.

Psychometric testing is interesting, and can reveal tendencies - but that's about it. Certainly using this as "hard data" for things like hiring, corporate restructures, etc, is fraught with issues.

In reality, the best predictor of a person's behaviour is (a lot of) detail on past performance. Even then, there are flaws.
For everything that I've used it for, it's been fantastic.

I was part of a team that built a social web crawler to look for XFN links. It worked fantastically for that.

I used it to create the tumblog on my website, which is pretty much an ideal use case for it. The source code for that is available so you can check it out here: http://github.com/ericflo/django-couch-lifestream/tree/maste...
Emacs running under X will do basic formatting (italic, bold, larger text, etc.) all on its own. There are packages out there that will do more elaborate previews. Googling gives: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/auctex
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I don't think it matters.

What I do find odd is where startups use the CxO titles... Can you really be CEO of a two person startup? Seems a bit ludicrous.
This just an artifact of english usage.

Joe and Jim start a company making widgetry for social networks.

Joe is a founder. Jim is a founder. Joe and Jim are the founders of the social network widgetry company.

Jim is Joe's co-founder. Joe is Jim's co-founder.

The "co-" prefix should really only be used where it removes confusion and makes it clear that there is more than one founder.
Also, if you type and/or say the word founder ten times, it starts to lose all meaning.

Hahaha, I overhead some baked high school kids in Starbucks today have exactly that conversation. (But I think the word was "snickerdoodle".)
Wow - thanks for this. I can't believe I'd never heard of it before. Looks like it will take the late out of Latex!
When I add a comment the edit link expires after a certain amount of time but I can still edit the comment (in a roundabout way). This is more of a bug than a feature. There is a hole that allow people to edit comments even after the link has expired and even thought the edit link no longer appears.
You can be a founder and also a position such as CTO and CEO, based on what you are contributing work-wise.
This is a silly idea for many reasons and I won't get into all them.

Turning HN into an invite-only site will radically change its nature and reduce the quality of posts and variety of opinions found here.

Apart from indulging in some serious groupthink, you'll keep out new or existing hackers that haven't found this site yet.

The site keeps growing and so the nature of the site changes. Instead of using draconian measures in a doomed attempt to recapture the 'good old days', make changes to the community system (karma points, modding, etc).
I personally find the problem of 'spam' or 'trolling' to be a small part of 'off-topic' posting. HN and digg don't have categories, right? So the on-topic material is quite broad. (Even better, personally, is permitting categorization such as sub-reddits, but with inheritance.) Still, the complaint is basically that one person thought article A was on-topic (hey it's my new blog! hey buy viagra!) and another person thought it was not.

An alternative to restricting the user-base--which I think will just reduce the variety of submission perspectives and depth, and only prevent off-topic-ness so much as the community is homogenous--is to

A. Make the "topic-ness" very clear. This might include reminder text or tutorials or mission statements, and it include the comments and voting mechanisms we already employ to pass-on the culture.

B. Use natural language processing and automation (at least for flagging) to reduce off-topic submissions.
Think for yourself, be yourself. Find the people and activities that match who you are. When the going gets tough, You will only have 2 friends your dad and a dollar.Talk as little as you can.Choose a profession knowing that is what you will do the rest of your life. Your wife will be 80% of your happiness / sadness of your adult life. Do not think you are below or above anyone. Being an employee sucks big time.Dont underestimate perseverance.

And pretty much reread everyday Soroyan short preface of "In the time of your life"
You're welcome!

I thought the same thing ("I can't believe I didn't know about this application before!") when I first heard of it 8 months ago...
This should be called "Where CouchDB Sucks" he highlights some points but also concedes it's great in many places. Frankly a lot of his criticisms are openly pointed out by the CouchDB docs.
Fairly interesting article here http://www.16-9.dk/2007-02/side11_inenglish.htm about the incident. According to the article, he was already a member (of the Friars Club) and this was actually his reason for leaving. Scroll down to 'The Friar's Club Incident' for the relevant information (although the stuff before it is nice too).

I know you don't really care, but, there you go.
But the compiler already knows that &rest variables are lists...
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No, I'm talking about when he goes to the future at the very start of the movie (or end of BTTF1).
There was an article on HN a month or so I can't find a link to which discussed how a number of major banks didn't properly update their models to knowingly take greater risks. It explored how a number of banks were using outdated models to allow them to bundle risks to create short-term profits at increased risk without upsetting the feds.

So, sure, the models were wrong but was the reason the inability of the modelers?
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Shrug - Yeah, I know - I'm probably just being a grump, but it seems ostentatious to me.
same here, the tests I've done usually say I'm ENTP, and Typealyzer said I'm ESTP.

About this part:
"They might be very impulsive and more keen on starting something new than following it through."

Is that a nice way of saying my blog doesn't get updated often enough? :)
That you can remember how to do something is not an argument for that being the best way to do said something, or even a good way to do it.

The only good arguments for not making things simpler are "they cannot be any simpler", closely followed by "the tradeoffs aren't worth the effort/cost".

Why not simplify everything, where possible? It's not about dumbing down, it's about being able to do more in total because each step is easier.
Its the legal title if your incorporated.
If a person picks up a chainsaw, and then complains that pruning roses is difficult, this does not necessarily mean the chainsaw is ill-designed.
A headline from the 1950s.
Who becomes self-employed? [pdf]
the entire reservoir of carbon stored on land, in living things and in soils combined

I don't believe that. Add the sea, and I doubly don't believe it. There's no reason it need be trees. It could just as easily be plankton.
It's critical for dealing with business people outside the startup world. It's hard to get them to take you seriously unless you're the CxO of something. That's why we use the titles at jtv anyway.
-Video game is a waste of your time.

-Practice something everyday.
No one is telling you you have to learn how to use the version-control flavor of the week if your project doesn't currently use it and your project is serviced just fine by some other version control flavor that everyone is already familiar with and is productive using.

However, it's isn't very productive to have to deal with the same problems every day when using tool X, especially if taking a few hours to learn tool Y and switch to it would solve those problems.
We know much more about the brain today.

A similar headline can be found for using "brainlike techniques" for object detection. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/11/2214233

But the algorithms in this case are from numenta, jeff hawkin's company. The methodology is:

1. Study the brain
2. Come up with theories on how memory and processing in the brain work
3. Write algorithms with the same structure.

I'd call that brain-like.
Or perhaps the things that don't involve initial head smacking don't come to mind when you think of things "worth knowing".

If everything you know was learned at some point, did you have an initial period of head smacking for everything you know?
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Yes, but then someone would go and claim that it'd never happen in real life because "it's just a game."
I thought the same thing. I closed the tab a moment after coming to the page, despite being in the market for such testing.
"Large-scale neural simulations are difficult for computers because neural models do not map onto the Von Neumann architecture. "

http://www.stanford.edu/group/brainsinsilicon/neurogrid.html

These guys have been doing HW neuro chips for a while. They claim to achieve performance similar to IBM supercomputers for a fraction of the price.
How about this for a twitter security issue: users are accustomed to giving their passwords to many third party twitter-API apps.
Touche. Perhaps I was a little careless in my statement.
It seems you could replace all occurrences of subversion with cvs and all occurrences of git with subversion and you'd have a blog post you could date 2001.
"... Baccalaureate Education and the Employment Decision:
Self-Employment and the Class of 1993 a working paper by Chad Moutray Office of Advocacy U.S. Small Business Administration ..."

This is the title of the study which I found here ~ http://www.danpink.com/archives/2008/11/who-becomes-self-emp...

"... This longitudinal survey asks a number of questions to a nationally representative sample of college and university students who were seniors during the 1992-1993 academic year. The same students answer follow-up questions periodically. In the case of the B&B data, there is information from subsequent questionnaires in 1994, 1997, and 2003. Much of the analysis in this paper focuses on employment in 2003, or ten years after graduation. To the best of my knowledge, the present study is the first to link and analyze educational ... experiences at the baccalaureate level with self-employment and other employment decisions using the 2003 B&B data responses ..."

From the abstract. Some of the data is interesting. In the study "Startups" don't seem to fit the model of a small business. For example:

"... The author also noted that the grades of those working in smaller firms tended to be lower on average, and they were less likely ... to have earned as many professional qualifications or advanced degrees as their peers who were employed by large businesses ..."

Also nice summarisation of Startup risk WRT rewards ...

"... While Moutray (2007) found that increased educational attainment corresponded to higher levels of self-employment, research tends to show that “being one’s own boss” does not necessarily yield higher earnings. Indeed, many would-be entrepreneurs have high—perhaps unrealistic—expectations regarding their future earnings potential, according to Arabsheibani et
al. (2000). A number of authors have observed that the self-employed earn less than their employed counterparts. ..."
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Ruh, are you asking what the advantage of something like Rails offers?
see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=366447
Peter Schiff was actually forecasting the whole thing since 2006:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I0QN-FYkpw

The really scary part is when you find his current predictions for the next few years:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGHODRNJqRo

I'm seriously worried now.
Heh... Interesting writing style... "Like a troubled teenager, the proton is a mess inside and just about impossible to figure out."

I think I'll go now and learn as much as I can about the strong force. Sounds like something I won't learn about in school much.
> forget catalyst at least for a little while

Uh, why?

> using perl cgi and dbi, these are two the best modules written i think

No. CGI.pm is universally regarded as bloated.
Catalyst and CGI::Application (or Titanium) are pretty much where it's at with perl web development. CGI.pm is a relic at this point. There are better, smaller, faster core CGI modules if that's all you want. Likewise, consider using a more modern wrapper like SQL::Abstract rather than straight-up DBI.

Catalyst has a somewhat steep learning curve and perhaps invites you to waste time evaluating alternative modules for functionality. It's not "opinionated" and you can choose very different subsystems to get the same job done. The upside is that Catalyst is probably the most powerful web framework out there. DBIx::Class is the most feature-full ORM out there, for one point (trounces ActiveRecord).

Titanium is much, much simpler and has the advantages that entails. You'll be up and running with Titanium in a day. It's a better option for the rare/occasional web app developer (like me).
I haven't seen Mason (http://www.masonhq.com/) mentioned yet. I was hoping someone else would mention it because I don't feel I can properly represent it. I only played around with it; nothing substantial. But I liked it (for what that's worth).

You'll see some names here of sites that use it that you'll recognize: http://www.masonhq.com/?MasonPoweredSites
(Amazon.com being one of the most notable).
I second auctex, it's preview mode is a godsend when formatting tables and formulas. It also has dozens of helpers for switxhing environments, defining and using macros, etc.

It comes with reftex, which, by itself, makes it worth learning. Reftex automatically searches bibtex files for regexps, makes cross-references easy and a lot of other useful things.
"Large-scale neural simulations are difficult for computers because neural models do not map onto the Von Neumann architecture."

I'm not sure I buy that. I can understand if speed is a big deal but I just can't imagine neural models do not map onto current computers. I'd like to see an example proving that sentence.
Oh why, b/c obviously as someone mentioned before it has a steep learning curve. Who cares about the "bloat" or whatever you think is wrong with it. my $p = CGI->new is elegantly simple whatever method you're calling. it's opinion dur!
They do: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6909078385965257294
Is that that case in the US?

I've had companies in other jurisdictions where this isn't the case - UK/Aus tend to use CxO for public companies. Private/limited companies tend to have Managing Directors, General Managers, Presidents, etc.
True... and then reality would prove them wrong. Maybe they would listen next time. This way, nobody will.
At my day job I've found Lucene to outperform CouchDB in query performance by orders of magnitude. I deal with a huge volume of manufacturing data, some of which fits into a "document model". The Solr frontend to Lucene is a poor substitute for CouchDB's web APIs though, too much configuration required -- it was easier to roll my own REST-ish front end with JSPs.
<3 I can't disagree with what you're saying. My design skills are weak but I wanted to validate the concept first. Today I've seen enough interest to validate moving forward with the project. I'm going to invest in a site facelift to bring the presentation to Web 2.0 standards. Thank you for taking the time to look and post your thoughts here. -- Raphael
Then the problem is with the people misusing the results, not with the test itself. The MBTI doesn't claim to be a perfect predictor at all; instead it's supposed to measure tendencies.
Of course,

These characters aren't easily type-able and most password crackers that I've seen use common ascii/ansi characters not obscure characters like this... It's all relative I guess. There obviously exists a case where these characters aren't helpful.
Ok - Probably just my experience - might just be a nomenclature difference between the US and UK/Aus/etc.