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I could definitely use great write speed and average read speed.

Use RAID-1 (mirroring) and have lots of disks in parallel. You can combine them for great read speed, but you still have to write to every one of them so writing is not improved.

If your write speed was much faster than read then this would work perfectly.

It would also find applications in things like data archiving, warehousing. Or buffering huge amounts of data for later processing (like the large hadron collider).
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Nice list, though that's not Tim Caswell's project; this is: https://github.com/luvit/luvit
> > According to many people in favor of higher taxes,
> > quantitative easing has no ill effects. Why don't they
> > just ease $5B into existence?
>
> It increases inflation. Right now, it's better to have
> more people employed/have the economy growing than it is
> to have inflation below 2%.

There's an orthodox misconception here that is taking some time to be fixed / properly understood by economists.

Quantitative easing is nothing more than an asset swap for banks. It increases the reserves in the banking system, yes, but it does not actually put more money into the hands of people who will spend it in the real economy. Its effect is at best indirect: it pushes the interbank lending rate down, and that can increase the pool of potential borrowers. But the effect is marginal at best.

Note in particular how the "money multiplier" dropped after QE: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/MULT?cid=25
Assuming that this kind of taxation would have no impact on the way stock market works is wrong IMO.

This kind of tax would probably at least to some degree make market participants more weary about "true" or "long term" stock price.
Author is a tax lawyer. The more nonsensical the tax code, the more money he makes.
If you disallow affiliate links, publishers will find a store that allows them. A piece of their traffic, especially for digital downloads, comes from referral links in contextual ads and elsewhere. If they didn't offer a cut, people would just link to iTunes instead.
No, I'm talking about a cop. This has been demonstrated in court [1].

[1] http://constitution.org/uslaw/defunlaw.htm
Why lie? It doesn't obfuscate the story any more than just saying 'not his real name'.
One of the few things that actually stands to make a difference in this zone is the possible implementation of crowdfunding laws. If small, new businesses like start-ups could actually raise investment through crowdfunding (ie: through people who don't have the 1%-er status to qualify as accredited investors), it would be possible to use capital sources not already controlled by the existing players.
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I have a site http://wetindeyshele.com/ which is basically a calendar that collects upcoming startup-related events. I'm surprised, though, that there aren't more calendar-aggregator sites online, or at least ones that use the format. Is there a reason why they're not more popular?
I think it's settled alright [1]. You're allowed to resist unlawful arrest, to the point of killing the officer.

[1] http://constitution.org/uslaw/defunlaw.htm
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A study has found that consumers were routinely targeted with spam email campaigns aimed at impersonating popular retail site Amazon, during the busy Christmas period, according to IT Portal.

In particular, there was one campaign which alleged to be from Amazon and told the targeted users that they had been charged for a smartphone handset, which of course, was not the case.

The message in question purported to allow users to track a parcel they had ordered, but the links included were actually related to a phishing site, disguised to look like the genuine article. Those who clicked them could end up with spyware on their computer which would then go about stealing private data from the infected machine and leaving the user in a potentially vulnerable position.

This particular scam is effective because users who had not bought the item in question would be worried that they had been charged a significant amount and so would be more likely to click the embedded links in the email.

This kind of spam message is becoming increasingly common as cybercriminals look to impersonate sites usually associated with offering safe shopping online, thus increasing the chances that the user will be fooled.

When millions of people would be receiving buckets of email confirmations and tracking messages during the run up to the festive period last year, such an innocuous message could easily cause you to drop your guard.

Anyone who opens an email like this and clicks the included links can protect their PC by installing antivirus software and a spyware checker. You need to keep these up to date if you want to secure your private details and enjoy safe shopping online, without being constantly concerned about the validity of the emails you receive and the sites you visit.
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> I would have no issue with a government that said
> "If you want to use our services, you need to pay.
> If you want to use roads that we build, you need
> to pay." And then people could freely choose.

Just by living in the country you are accessing the benefits of those things though.
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Hi All,

Apologies for those of you who aren’t interested in this, or who may find this offensive.

A Friend of a friend has uploaded a video of her son Daniel to YouTube, singing his favourite ‘Fart Song’.

Dan is autistic and very excited about his video. He checks the site every day to see if he’s had any more hits – it’s stagnated over the last week, at last count he had about 68 views.

If you have an idle few minutes, it’d make Daniel’s day it if you’d watch his Fart Song video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTRMQ4SIVJw&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Cheers folks, and again apologies to anyone who finds this offensive/tasteless/spam

Mohammed
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Can you clarify? Broken how? On a technical level? Usability-wise? Some other way?
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I think in this special case, it's much faster to google and read instead of watching a relatively long video.

For example searching how to save a Vim-macro yields this very useful result: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Macros
> How does the Mormon Church work?

You keep using religion as an example for how to run a government on donations. Do you really think that the government should be modeled on religious power structure? Are we supposed to run a government fundraiser by promising salvation in the afterlife?

Also, with religion, I'm sure that it's possible for someone to be 'kicked out' of the religion for not paying dues. In the case of a sovereign country, where would you deport a US citizen to for conscientiously objecting to the collection of taxes?
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If he's already doing VB/Access work for the prison, could you not slip in a .net book as a means to help him in his work there? Or donating it to the library (as tdfx suggested) sounds like a good way around it.
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Isn't this just really a nicer Craigslist with some social-trust components?
This was posted 6 days ago, I am interested in applying if the position is still available. I am Irish, so a H1B would be a must for me...
yeah - sorry. I'll add a GPL notice to the repository tomorrow.
Not while C++ doesn't have restrict pointers
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You need both. The thing with easy debug-output is that you start using it so much that you simply get too much stuff on the screen at the same time if you keep it all enabled.
Without commenting on Node.native, I'd just like to note that C++11 isn't your grandparents' C++ anymore. An experienced programmer probably can write code in C++11 that is almost as elegant as, say, the equivalent C# code. And for larger projects many people would prefer something like C# to JavaScript, if only for the static typing.
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Yeah, all performance benefits of C come from a single under used feature. </sarcasm>
You guys are constantly pushing out cool stuff, just started using KIF and I really like it. Thanks for open sourcing guys!
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(still in insert mode, and the cursor has navigated to right before the next 'x' character)

^O 4 4 G

(still in insert mode, now on line 44)
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Building Better Project takes just Ramen,Pizza,Coke and Knowledge not Mr.Marcelo Calbucci's Permission.

So If i have good experience and knowledge .I would build better project and Shove it up to his "Startup owning Arrogance"
"Things basically work in our company because we have good people from the top on down" doesn't make for catchy business books though.
A biometric database is hardly rocket science anymore. The main problems to overcome are likely not technical but administrative/political. I am pretty sure it will not work at first and for some time, as said political problems will need time to get (hopefully) worked out. As other posters said, only for all gov't offices to start to actually accept the UID will probably take many years. But its a good start.
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In the EU, the third party would be using personal data for other than the reason it was collected, so it is illegal.
IMHO Restricted Transactional Memory (RTM) is something different than simply blocking until you acquire the lock. There are also full software implementations (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_transactional_memory).

Basically the code path is executed optimistically and in case of conflicts the application has to handle it somehow.
The example of sparse arrays is not quite "uninitialised memory", more like "stale pointers". I remember implementing Knuth's Algorithm X (http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/papers/dancing-color... - compressed PS file) for fun, and being horrified (as a good little C programmer) by the pointer abuse. The algorithm builds a 2 dimensional linked list structure which selectively covers columns by disconnecting half the pointers, and leaving the other half dangling so it can be reconnected later. Of course it all works beautifully, I'm just not sure that I'd want to have to debug some medium-quality engineers' implementation of it...
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After around 5 years of using vim, I'm at the point now where everything in this article and comment thread is already in muscle memory. My only advice would be similar to whats in other comments:

* Learn to touch-type

* Learn new features slowly, giving each of them time to find their place in your workflow.

My questions for other vim power users:

* What _epic_ custom mappings do you have? Steve Losh's <Leader>ev for editing .vimrc and <Leader>sv for sourcing completely changed how I use and customize vim... are the any others with that level of impact?

* How have you mapped control of buffers/windows/tabs? Command-T buffer mode takes care of open buffers, and the default window/tab control mappings seem good enough for me, but I'm wondering if there's a nicer way for this interaction to work. Currently I've got arrow keys mapped to moving tab focus, but it feels like their might be a better way here.

* Are there any fun and creative ways you've integrated with the shell/plugins? Here are some examples I've got:

<Leader>r :!rake

<Leader>rs :!rake spec

<Leader>rl :!rake spec (test near this line)

<Leader>gs :GStatus (fugitives 'git status')

<Leader>gb :GBlame (fugutives 'git blame')

* What's a nice way to do find in project? Both vimgrep and :Ggrep are OK, but I find it weird that I'm taken out of the editor for both of those... Ideally I'd like the results to open up in a buffer which I can then browse through in some nice way.
In theory, that's a good workaround. But that's based on our understanding and what is logical and reasonable to us. My apologies for the tone of that statement--it's not at all directed at you; you could not believe the obstruction he has had to deal with as he has put himself through undergrad and graduate school through mail-in correspondence. He was hoping to pursue a phd, but the administration would not allow him to pursue his research project, so he had to stop at a master's. Bettering himself has been no easy task.

We pursued the option of donating to the library, but the correctional officers do keep a good watch on what comes as donations, apparently. He has also tried to order programming books through the Inter Library Loan program, but no luck. He learned VB/Access through material that was available in the factory and, of course, just figuring things out through trial and error. But I'll ask him about this option in more detail.
Yeah - or I hire a private eye to spy on my wife and he pays off a path DBA. Don't people always complain on HN that they don't get enough kaching?
I hate to be high brow here, but I'm just waiting for O'Reilly to release Brain Surgery for Hackers. Some things are just better learned the hard way, sitting down and getting a more thorough introduction.
How could that ever work, for infrared to affect magnetism?
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No problem at all! You might want to try out a Photoshop Elements trial along with an Elements+ trial and make sure it fits the bill for what you need, but I bet it would.
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Well, it could be a combination. Maybe he doesn't recall the name off the top of his head, and he's not going to dig it out of old emails because he has no intention of 'outing' the guy.
Whilst C++ can be as fast, or faster, than C - it's usually not because it's "properly coded". Many of the abstractions that C++ provides are what hit performance and it's usually by avoiding these that you can match performance with C.

http://unthought.net/c++/c_vs_c++.html
The beautiful thing about muscle memory is you can have two similar concepts map to completely different keys and your muscles will handle it just fine. I happily use gg/G/:# without mental overhead.
I just tried it and doesn't boot. Would really like to have it on a flash drive, shame it doesn't work yet... :\
I'd never ask a prospective employee to work on a side project as a prerequisite to an interview, but I agree that it's almost mandatory to see that a dev has singlehandedly built and shipped a product if they're going to be a first hire at a startup.

This doesn't have to be a 'side project'; it could have been a new product with a small team at their existing company, or a job at a small startup with only a small handful of people, or even just a cool thing that they built in university.

A 'big company' developer, one that has only worked for large companies, that lacks this qualification, might be a good co-founder, but isn't really a good first technical hire.

The pay cut, though, is insulting. I won't ask an engineer to take a below-market rate to work for my company, unless they've got an equity stake that makes up for it. Which, frankly, moves them into co-founder territory.
While the standard does not specify a restrict keyword, it is practically available in quite a lot of compiler.
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Oh that's a nice trick, I'll remember that one. As an avid user of J I've been wanting its inverse.
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I like the idea of :1 and :$, but how do you get it to work in conjuction with selections (visual mode)?

If I want to select the entire contents of the file, hitting "v" then ":1" seems not to work.
That's a good hack. Personally I just have F4 mapped to toggle between relative and absolute, but relative is the default. I rarely care about specific line numbers because if I'm looking at a stack trace for something I just jump directly with :#
You ignored the article and what the GP said: Through heat. Not (directly) by the light.
Both the previous people were adapting that extremely well known line and purposefully modifying it.
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I've been finding Wiktionary (which is linked from the top of this article) pretty good for this kind of thing. For me it's learning french from english, so I can read definitions in both languages i.e. I can find definitions of english words in both french and english, and french words in both french and english, amongst other languages):

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lowest_common_denominator

Though I note in this case the term is only translated into a few languages, and they seem to only give the mathematical sense. But it's only going to get better if people use it and contribute.
Here's another idea: Since your friend is coming out in 9 months anyway and there's so much risk involved in trying to sneak in a programming book, he should probably spend his time developing another equally useful skill: writing well.

As many other successful programmers have noted (Spolsky, Yegge) and demonstrated, effective communication, especially through writing, is a very useful and necessary skill for a programmer. So, maybe you should send him just some good books on writing well.

In general books, I can think of Strunk and White, On Writing (by Stephen King). But some examples of good writing about programming could also help:

The Best Software Writing (edited by Spolsky)

Joel on Software (the best articles from his blog)

Steve Yegge's blog posts (others might disagree but I think he is an excellent writer).

Paul Graham's essays

raganwald's old blog - http://weblog.raganwald.com/

James Hague's blog - http://prog21.dadgum.com/

Rands in Repose - http://randsinrepose.com/
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Taxing capital gains as normal income would also have a positive effect on the serious problem that 70% of US companies don't pay dividends, which is really missing the whole point of making capital allocation more efficient.
I highly suggests switching to QWERTY while coding in Vim. You should be already familiar with it and it only takes a few days to be really at ease with it. We don't need characters from our languages in our code (at least most of the time).
I use todo lists too. I just don't consider them important areas to tweak/optimize.

One productivity product that I did like: The time of your life, by Tony Robbins. But it's very different from GTD type stuff, as it focuses more on figuring out what you want and thinking up smarter ways to achieve the goals. Ie it focuses on desired emotional outcomes rather than specific todos.
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Originally I’d said that they swapped out Netfront for WebKit, but I’d forgotten that recent Netfronts actually use WebKit for the engine – obviously they just updated to that.
I don't see why affiliate programs would have an issue here. If Pinterest didn't exist they wouldn't be getting the traffic.

Pinterest has every right to monetize their website in the least intrusive way possible. These referal links are transparent and provide a neat way to get some income.

What suprises me is how they are giving away 25% of their profits by using a third-party service instead of making something themselves.
Yeah, but then using apps would quickly descend into a horrible mess of deny/accept, confusing and scaring the user. The pop-up hell of windows would pale in comparison.

You'd have solved the problem, but created a horrible user experience instead.
I agree that watching videos is a pain sometimes when you want specific information.

On the other hand, watching a person do the task can be a nice "breakthrough" from the eyes of a noob.

For example, I've watched some https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/ videos. I could have read an article that says the same things, but you get a nice context for the reasoning. You see the thing happen. It's nice for the programming perspective, perhaps not for looking up certain macros.
What about beginners that don't know that VIM has certain features?
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Can you show us the script you use to make this happen? Sounds interesting.
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> "Besides that, there are some mental hurdles you have to overcome by yourself about understanding the risk-reward of a startup. Taking a 30-40% salary cut is just one of those."

Uh... how about... no.

So very, very tired of founders trying to convince everyone that tiny stake as an employee in a startup is worth a giant haircut, or really, any haircut at all.

If you want me to take a huge haircut, bring meaningful equity to the table. It's laughable how some startups want you to take a $20-30K haircut in exchange for equity that, if the startup exits big after years of toil, might buy you a Smart car.

Sometimes recruiters cold call me and try to pitch me on some startup or another, and then ask if I'm amenable to taking a haircut in exchange for equity. At this point I'm tempted to just issue a blanket "hell no".
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There are problems with the proposal, but it does explicitly say it's for publicly traded stocks only and, thus, wouldn't apply to startups.
Just a friendly word of advice from a former contractor: if you ever feel the need to put a kill-switch in a site you're developing, it's time to stop, cut your losses, and find a new client to work for. It just isn't worth it. Send them a bill for the work completed so far if you want, but don't expect it to get paid and don't worry about it when it doesn't.

As for how to do that and still make a living: double your rates and require 50% up front. That way you've gotten "full" payment by your current rates if the work goes sour, and a nice bonus when it doesn't.

In our line of work, there are a lot of good clients out there. Life's too short to deal with the bad ones.
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