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So I'm getting the picture that Facebook didn't break the internet. Facebook broke a bunch of websites that made the intentional design decision to depend on Facebook for their own availability.

Is this right?
I started with this Arduino kit from Sparkfun last summer. I had no electrical experience before and I learned a lot from it. Since then, I've made a couple of my own little Arduino based projects.

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In case others are wondering, its quite easy to make a "fallback" when using CDN scripts. For instance:

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.4/jquery.js"></script>
<script>window.jQuery || document.write("<script src='js/libs/jquery-1.6.4.min.js'></script>")</script>

Could save all such sites that rely on Google CDN jQuery
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What about the following:

What if you had a team dashboard, minimalist in style. It had a selection whereby you could choose one of 3 status for how your efforts were going: Red, Orange, Green.

At a certain time, you are prompted to pick one of the 3 status.

All team members pick their status - and the lead gets a weighted summary of overall status. If too many orange/red status are selected the team meeting gets called - if more green/orange then he can choose to defer, if mostly green then it says no meeting necessary.

You'll never know what other members pick and, by default, the lead wont know who picked what (unless he wanted to audit).

This would be an non-intrusive method of polling the team, without risk, as to whether or not a meeting was required.
What did Facebook break? My internet seems to have been functioning and still functions perfectly.
>Secondly, and more importantly, the reason the employer is making a counter-offer is not to entice you to stay, but to buy enough time to find someone else -- a loyal and qualified someone else -- to replace you.

People need to realize this. I worked for a company that did it time after time. Everybody who actually took a counter was out on the street within three months, meaning the company was able to make a much smoother transition at the cost of just a few extra months at the higher salary.

The guy who took the counter was then in a position of finding a job when he didn't have one, which is a recipe for getting lowballed by potential employers.

When they offered me a counter I was tempted to take it on the condition they give me a huge cash bonus and a twelve month contract with steep cancellation penalties. Instead I just said no. Who wants to work at a place like that?
Someone explain this to me. What do buildpacks allow me to do?
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I hadn't noticed, until sp332 pointed it out, that they were no longer leading with "Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s..."
It happened almost a year ago!

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2398095
That's been one of my concerns, the best way to circumvent that issue is to do something like the following:

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>window.jQuery || document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='/path/to/jquery.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));</script>

This way it will fallback to a local copy if Google's goes down.

[Edit: simonsarris replied with something similar as I was replying, however, the advantage of using unescape is that you don't get invalid markup warnings]
That means you are not married and don't have kids to send to school and very young, to do any retirement planning.
Asking for more money is a much different thing than turning in your notice. Of course when you march into the boss's office and ask for more money you're sort of implying you might look elsewhere if they don't cough up the cash. But you're more likely to be labeled ambitious than disloyal, which is what happens to counter-takers.
I would go so far as to say most HN comments mimic that style
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That also depends on what you do with the money from the raise. I don't know what that was but you could've invested it and made significant returns as well.
Agreed. Mobile web apps should be simple, fast, and to the point. Most of these frameworks are redundant if you know DOM and CSS appropriately.
Ease of novice development is definitely a worthy goal and a valuable niche to carve out (like PHP).

But there will be backlash if too many of those novice supporters go overboard in their enthusiasm without any experience to put it in context.
Maybe you just have a different set of priorities.

I feel much the same way. The bills are paid, there's some money going into savings, there's time to spend with the family, and I'm doing work that's fun.

OK, I'll ride that for a while. Could I make more? Maybe. Probably. Do I need to? Nope. Sometimes going with the flow is worth it for the amount of stress it saves you (and your family). As long as you are not stagnating and feeling unfulfilled and poorly compensated, I see nothing wrong with leaving well enough alone until one of those criteria changes or a great opportunity happens along.

If it ain't broke....
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This is the problem with centralization.
yes because shit happens to be something that would occur naturally in that environment, whereas isolating some of the things that are in shit and spraying it on a field (chemical fertilizers) actually do harm in the long run.
I don't understand why a species would find an intelligent meat race so surprising and revolting if there are other species that go through a meat phase or are partially made of meat.
Right, like http://openpoke.org stayed up.
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Really? I've been online all day, and I didn't notice.
On a simliar note, I've heard there of people who would hit the limit on fortran files, so they put every variable into a function call to the next file, which itself contained one function and a function call to the next file after that (if necessary).

Making stuff modular is often a good idea.
Ed could have shortened the time by helping. Really poor team attitude.
yeah I just use vim/git for everything.

I did write a makefile to do the monotonous stuff for me (create pdf, generate figures with graphviz, fetch bibtex from zotero, etc). one of those instances of procrastination instead of writing which i can at least justify.
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Agree. The comments getting the up votes seem to think that techs should just sit around while the dumb users get their act together. Ed is as much a part of that team as everyone else.
My first thoughts too. Actually what I saw in my head was me sitting beside a couple loud talkers conversing about an industry I don't care about.
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It doesn't. But it does mean you don't have to do it every time

This is a nice overview on FSevents

http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2007/10/mac-os-x-10-5.a...
No where in there did I say that the best employees have to quit and leave for better offers. I'm part of a startup that underpays me (based on job offers I've had since joining) yet I wouldn't dream of leaving. Incentives (and priorities) make a difference.
I think it's a disgrace that your comment is near the bottom of this thread. Ed's attitude sucks and he will cost the company money. The people down voting you don't seem to care much for having a work ethic.
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Piracy, copyright, profit, and kiss my ass
PoC for the wrong bug.
It's a bar on Virgin Atlantic :)
I'm currently working on a digital magazine using Tumult's hype.app and Baker framework.
It looks like SPDY will/could support proxies: http://www.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-proxy http://dev.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-proxy-examples
Are you indicating Jeff Bezos?
1. The graphic exaggerates your downtime (1 minute/day looks like a day - x1440 worse than it is).

2. (On the site) please explain what each status is and how they relate (or link to rel docs). I understand the website uses the API; yet sometimes the API is down but not the website...

BTW: I humoured some severe criticism of my business once; it was only years later that I realized how accurate, helpful and crucial it was.
I admittedly don't know everything that goes on at Google, but last I heard, a PM would never be people-managing an engineer (although there's a separate "manager" track that sometimes ends up managing engineers), and all PM hiring required a CS degree or engineering background.

There was a period of time (roughly 2004-2007) where Google hired a bunch of managers without engineering backgrounds, but they discontinued that practice a long time ago because they found it doesn't work so hot. I've heard that many of the worst offenders have since attritioned away.
You're absolutely right and I know exactly what you are talking about. There is a crisis in software management and the people who run corporations don't and won't understand it. The problem is that lots of non-engineers want big money and are good enough bullshitters to get in over their heads. You get one in at a high level and of course someone with little to no experience is going to distrust the engineers who spent decades in universities and companies learning the field. Who are they going to hire for middle management, super knowledgeable trained engineering managers or other non-engineers who share their distrust? Their distrust is warranted as they are unqualified.

The problem is only compounded by the fact that everyone can have a computer while not everyone can design and assemble a nuclear reactor or highway bridge. Therefore, people easily overestimate their understanding and abilities in being a dev manager. Add to this the fact that software is paying much better than many other fields including sciences, academia, and engineering and everyone wants in.

The fallout is hellish work environments as programmers have to contend with these people (who bring over their outdated interpretation of the management role from their old careers), and a disengaged workforce looking for the exit doors. Long term this will only drive software costs up.
Mozilla refused to implement NaCl and WebP; it looks like they're evaluating Chrome features on a case-by-case basis.
Yea, a FUSE filesystem is also being considered as one of the possible solutions.
I believe this is quite true. I also believe that the loudest members of the community (or work, family, politics etc) are the ones you should never, ever listen to. The loudest people tend to get the attention, but I firmly believe you should not indulge them and create a broken system where the loudest, most obnoxious people start calling the shots.

This is particularly why I like Ubuntu these days. It seems they have a vision and are sticking to it. Most current Ubuntu users are going to be quite happy, but there will be a few very vocal community members who are essentially caught in a "who moved my cheese" scenario and they will be quite loud. Unity is turning out to be the best DE in all of Linux and they are doing something different, bold and it is clear there is a unified vision there. Had they listened to the community, they would still be doing GNOME2 for the next 10 years and the status quo would remain...no movement, no growth, no real innovation.

Another community that seems to get it right, as much as I am not a fan of the whole community, is Rails. DHH made some tough calls (Coffescript and not going to HAML and Rspec) and there were quite a few people who hated those decisions, but DHH either had a vision or made a random call (hard to tell in his case) and stuck with it. Seems to be working out for them.

And, lastly, Apple. I really, really dislike Apple these days. I think they are going Evil pretty quickly. BUT, they stick to their guns when everyone else tells them they should be doing something different. Let other people build mac hardware? Open up iPhone/iPad development off Macs? Flash on the iPhone/iPad? App store taking 30% from in app purchases?

Overall, I think the message is this: Have a vision, understand what you are doing and execute to your vision. You might be right, you might be wrong, but you can't please everyone so know what you are trying to do and do it. Hot or cold but not lukewarm.
How does one get to be a "product manager" without having an engineering background? Is there a degree for that? Mostly-serious question.
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It looks like a buildpack describes how to detect and compile apps for a given language / framework. So you can use a custom buildpack if you want to use a framework that Heroku doesn’t support by default.
Would a google (oauth) login in additon to Facebook connect solve the problem for most users OR is it necessary to also have an option to register an account?
If the Boss isn't clueless when you say "no", you may be get fired. My friend has similar experiences.
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I think it's a bad practice to keep a giant code base in one repo. Split the code base into purpose-specific modules, just as you would split any project into purpose-specific modules. In fact, those two things might well line up 1:1.

If a project depends on other projects, have it reference the other projects. Where appropriate, include exact version numbers and/or commit hashes. Gemfiles are good examples of this good practice at work.

Yes, git has submodules for this sort of thing, but after investigating that route, I decided against using git submodules. Use something independent of the VCS instead. Then git won't do weird or unexpected things when you switch branches. Also, you might want to mix in projects that use other version control systems. And really, why unnecessarily couple a project to its version control system?

If (when?), even after splitting a megaproject into manageable subprojects, these performance issues creep in, I'd certainly be interested in whatever improvements people are coming up with...
... unless you start making demands?

while I agree with the article. title of this submission is very misleading!
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This is an interesting social AND a technical problem. The problem for FB is that it is all too easy for them to just fork git, create the necessary interfaces and then hope the git maintainers would accept it (they mightn't) or release it into the wild (and incur bad karma and wrath of OS developers who'd see this has schism or even heresy).

They've reached out to the developers on git, and I guess that's a first step.
2001.09.26? Don't go to college, at least not for computer science as you planned. You'll grow to hate it, you will never work in the field, and the loans will haunt you.

Write more, love more, exercise more, run away. Far, far away. This is your 31 year old self speaking. I can't tell you any answers because there aren't any. But I can tell you what to look for, and that's purpose. It won't be found in absent minded busy work there. Get active. Get away. Get going. Now.
NTFS has this optionally in the "USN Change Journal"; see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363798.aspx. It's used by a few Microsoft features like indexing and file replication, but it's available to third party programs too.
Heh, I realized what story it was as this page was loading. It has been a while!
No. The site is a selling document, to potential developer-users. It sells the uptime and the honesty/integrity/trustworthiness of stripe.

It should also be selling the simplicity, transparent communication and ease-of-use of stripe.
The model. For example, including a backbone.js collection/model definition in the server-side node environment and serving the same model code to the client. The controller-y stuff will be different on each: on the node server the model is persisted by overwriting backbone.sync backbone-redis, and the client could choose to do local caching by extending the sync function with a localstorage plug-in.

For the client-server communication, by default backbone.sync on the client uses restful cruddy urls (for rails), which would need to be handled in a node.js router. There's a lot of boilerplate-type stuff out there to help handle routing those urls, building on e.g. express.js. It seems to be more straightforward on rails which already established conventions.

That's probably why a lot of the backbone/node demos and tutorials forego the restful server interface. Its simpler to just do client-server communication using a real-time pipe like socket.io (which itself is shared code on the server the client). not restful but comes with an added wow factor.
Hey, just tried it out with the IEEEtran template and it didn't work:

http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishin...

I did upload the class file and the document points to it explicitly.

You can check out the errors here: https://www.sharelatex.com/project/4f2cc71be369403e73004116 (awesome that I can do this!)

This is really great, I'm going to tell all of my academic friends/collaborators about it. This is a _huge_ improvement over version control (for non-geeks) or Dropbox sharing, not to mention email, which a shocking number of people seem to still use.
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It sort of depends. For the blackboard bold, it's not really much difference between doing it in the editor and doing it as TeX macros. I used to do them in TeX, but after I started doing other things in the editor I switched them for no particular reason outside of consistency. Also, expansions for words like function, holomorphic, 'the following are equivalent', 'if and only if', etc., are problematic to do as TeX macros, because of issues around spacing, and because it's simply more readable.

For the others, it is really about the keystrokes -- one has to be able to type really fast to keep up in a lecture or a talk, and then once you've optimized for speed, why not type that quickly all the time?
I agree. With over billions of people doing this stuff, no one can ever control piracy.
Nice post Eric. This is why I can never imagine myself without my physical books, whether or not I have a Kindle. A world in which the only texture is glass is sad.
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Standups are good for both surfacing as well as identifying problems (e.g. things that don't appear to be problems).

Standups aside, sure, ssync information is good. However, it's not nearly as rich as face to face communication.

I'm not sure why you say meetings should be for solving problems. The majority of my meetings are about sharing information and planning. I solve problems at my desk.
>>No one really wants to help you unless there is something in it for them or it fits into their larger plan.<<

Some good points, but I've found this one to be wildly untrue. Almost universally, I've found really successful people want to help other people become really successful. Like his other points, you'll have to initiate and ask for their help, but I've never met anyone successful who isn't willing to give to just about anyone.
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>Am I insane for being completely satisfied with $80,000/yr to do really cool multithreaded programming work on some seriously beefy hardware? (Midwest area.)

In 10 years of midwest experience, $80k is probably a bit on the low side for systems-level work. Just a few years ago I would see DreamWeaver jockeys pick up full time for ~$50k/year. One hire did NOT know the difference between HTML and an HTTP server, someone else called me into a training session she was hosting and asked why her form wouldn't work. She had set the form's action param to email:

<form action="mailto:example@domain.com">

Sadly I'm not kidding. :(

On the high-side, I've seen C/C++ contractors charge $100-$250/hour, depending wildly on the individual consultants.

So I don't think you're crazy for being happy. And great working conditions can have an often immeasurable impact on life. Happiness, is, after all, the end game - and a guaranteed $80k/year might be worth more than an unknown $120k/year for some people.
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I was playing Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto when a contractor came for an on-site and he remarked on how it was good "design music". He mentioned he preferred ambient music whilst doing cognitively intensive work. When doing something rote, rock, pop or metal was a good choice.
Haha, of course. Just a silly thought experiment.

But the whole topic is a little silly too right?

A company exists to make money for its stake holders, not pay it's programmers. It's not in a companies interest to make sure each of its programmers is paid well, only to retain the talent for as long as needed. Not necessary the same thing.
Just read this after posting http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3550443.

And I thought my Raster-Noton habit put me in the minority!
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As a DJ/producer, I have a professional obligation to loathe trance music, but I can't deny that it's just the perfect thing for programming.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTODkLro8gs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-p_Ihm95KQ

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=surw1-iXmR0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsEY0OLv_Y4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uRTjooOnsc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXb0y9yws4c

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Just curious why both iUI AND jQM? I was hoping iUI could be a lightweight replacement for JQM. What does it lack?
As a musician, I love it. That's probably half due to roughly 70% of my songs ending up as trance by the time I'm done though. What is it about it that you dislike exactly?
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