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This is what I've been spinning in my head: Why. Why? Why would you choose such a high-stake, broad-scoped project as the time to use brand new tech which you have no experience with?

It's fantastic that everything worked out in the end, and the CoffeeScript pain point analysis is nice to have so clearly put, but still, my mind is fixated on that original "Why?"
I think it takes a while for Google to remove a page from it's index, if one exists then suddenly 404's in my experience it takes a little longer than a week to remove it from Googles index.
Just to be clear, the DVD setup does allow you to pick the desktop you want, but KDE is selected by default.
The company in scenario A isn't the same one in scenario B. If a company isn't going to contribute their improvements to a BSD project, what makes you think they're going to open-source their entire code base just to "grudgingly" use a GPL project?
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Even if all tests pass, it doesn't mean you're ready to ship half-completed features. The features should be on branches not in the deployable code.
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"Today, cus­tomers are pay­ing a pre­mium for chan­nels they may or may not watch. By offer­ing stream­ing for a fee, con­tent owner could open up a dia­logue with end cus­tomers that lets the free mar­ket decide which chan­nels live and which ones die. But today, those same com­pa­nies are using near-monopoly fran­chises in one field (dis­tri­b­u­tion) to sub­si­dize another… and inter­net live stream­ing of their sta­tions could threaten that monopoly."

So, over time they'll lose out to piracy and go bust. If they can't see the handwriting on the wall, then they deserve it. I'll just have to find other ways to get money to the people that produce the content (buying episodes of Community on Amazon, for example).
"The desktop is just there to launch and switch between applications."

If that's how you look at the desktop, then you should definitely look at Lubuntu. It's just windows and a panel. When you look at an Xfce desktop, it looks like Xfce. When you look at Lubuntu, it's just windows and a panel.
A DHH type would've slammed this guy for being not giving the language its due, you are way too nice J!

After working hours and hours on a Coffeescript framework, I can say thinking in Coffeescript finds a different place to exist than Javascript or any other language. I particularly made use of object and array structuring, destructing.

Given no tooling that I liked in the Java realm I work in, I made my own compiler using Rhino and Coffeescript.js.

Within a month I had accomplished what would've taken me 3 months in Javascript. Within two months I had rewritten my original framework to Coffeescript paradigms that were emerging from the code AND I was adding features to my framework rapidly. My Coffeescript code came in about 55% of comparable Javascript. In framework version 1 it was about 75% of comparable Javascript.

My biggest critique of the article is the process. The author picked a tool he are not familiar with, probably produced sub-par code, and then for the next project aims to pick something else they appear to be equally unfamiliar with. That's great for padding the resume and getting the next gig, but terrible for producing high quality.
I mean either scenario is possible but yeah I don't know for sure.

I'm not sure how to think about the legitimacy of the Syrian government though. Is any government legitimate? I know a lot of people don't like Stephen Harper or Obama, but they deal with it until the next election. Presumably the Syrian government was elected at some point too so they must have some kind of support in the country. Indiscriminately killing peaceful protesters would certainly destroy that legitimacy, but the images I mentioned make me wonder if the army's response is totally unwarranted.
I understand your point. Here are two more points:

1. We should remember that young kids have no idea that, while we are absent, we are sacrificing, providing and succeeding. To them, we are just absent.

2. Reading Dr. Suess and playing Lego with our kids is an expression of sacrifice, provision and success, albeit with different currency and goals.
I'm currently setting up my home away on a shiny new vps (with lots of goals like 'try blogging for the nth time' & 'really migrate away from gmail' being on top).

I discovered taskwarrior [1] and fell in love. So far it's blissfully simple. No syncing (I guess I could easily tack it on though), but I'm on that machine anyway, always (irc, mail, tinkering).

So far it's the most natural interface that I could imagine.

1: http://taskwarrior.org/projects/show/taskwarrior
Interesting, but can anyone find an use case for this beside an in browser "second life" clone?
Yes, they now have laser guided bullets
It does have Optimus and the battery life is about where yours is - maybe 2.5 hours.

I'm running the nVidia chip exclusively, but when I get around to it, I'll probably switch, as I'm running an openbox desktop that just doesn't need that kind of graphics acceleration. I have yet to figure out a painless way of switching between the two, but that's probably because I haven't really worked on it much.
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. --Abraham Lincoln

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away.--Anonymous
I think it's difficult to group up knowledge like this. I read through the levels and found that I had bits and pieces from different levels, meaning the whole system sort of failed me.

Levels work in a structured environment. Programming and the learning of programming is far from structured.
You're right, it's an interesting phenomenon, but I don't think it's new. For better or worse, Facebook has become the primary (and often only) way I communicate with the majority of my friends and family. While there is certainly an important legal distinction between government censorship and private censorship, the effect here is indistinguishable.

And it's not the first time. The USA used to have rules governing how much of an area's media channels could be owned by a single corporation (and thus warped to serve a single set of interests.) There are strong parallels to this situation.

One of the effects of these Too Big/Entrenched To Replace corporations. It is often easier and more effective to change the corporations than to use alternatives, and in many cases, there simply are no viable alternatives.

The people on HN probably care more about having an open web that enables free-as-in-breastfeeding-pictures communication than it does about breastfeeding. One can choose to view this controversy in either context; I care about both, somewhat to my surprise.

(Actually, much of HN appears to care more about "you know what's cool? a hundred billion dollars" than open communication, but that's a different story.)
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So you're saying that Washington DC and Silicon Valley are different bubbles.

@uberPhil: I'm in Hungary, so I'm not a bubble boy =)
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Needs more cowbell. "Wasn't that a fucking great movie?" => 0.7 Negative sentiment.
Sure. I'd even agree. I would say that for certain use cases, the advantage of video can be large. Averaged over all use cases that matter, there may be no advantage at all. Of course that doesn't mean you shouldn't use it where the advantage is large (not that I think you're saying that!)
I get the reason if your post.

But saying you can't skin Bootstrap? There is nothing hard about changing all the .less files to be skinned to whatever you want. I am in the middle of doing it for a large project right now, and there won't be any visible evidence of Bootstrap.

Someone who doesn't want to design a skin might not want to take the time, but that doesn't mean it's not easy for someone who is a adept graphic designer and CSS author. Especially with .less.

Anyways, I think we're talking about different things. If you say I can't change Bootstrap to fit my design, that's just plain wrong. Every single line of every .less file can be modified, and it's probably tremendously faster and easier than starting with a reset.less and writing EVERYTHING from the ground up, let alone all the IE hacks and HTML5 workarounds.

I honestly don't see the difficulty in adding/modifying .less files, or changing class names. All the div layouts and HTML can be whatever you want. You don't have to use their grid or responsive layouts.

So saying you can't skin it is ridiculous. The entire .less source is included. Skin it as much as you want. Every single CSS and HTML aspect is customizable. And again, you are no worse off for doing so.
But not all flagged pictures are removed - there's still a Facebook employee who has to make the decision.
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It shows up as a normal Google result. Did anyone measure the delays for getting delisted from the "search plus your world" results?
No, it's 7 years, and I have that on the high authority of an old Marilyn Monroe flick.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Year_Itch
How is blackmailing to not release data something Anonymous would want?
Its just one of the dozens of sneaky ways that less than moral companies say they're paying employees competitive rates and then... don't.
So what can we do as web authors? I use standardized CSS generators that hit all appropriate prefixes. ex: http://css3generator.com/

What else?
Just $50k?
> For C++ there are no good IDEs period.

I challenge you to try KDevelop, which likely has the most complete C++ parser outside gcc, clang and EDG, and uses it to great effect for things like semantic syntax highlighting, smart code-completion and useful information tooltips, plus other features. It also does reasonably well on large codebases like its own, or kdelibs, or Qt - or all of those within the same session, for that matter.

Its development version also has respectable C++11 support that is probably second only to gcc.
Which is why you have configuration switches to turn them on and off. The tests ensure that they don't mess with existing features, the switch makes sure the users can't see them.
Ah. Well if your RAID controller dies, you're dead in the water no? My understanding of the Fusion cards is that they're roughly as resilient as a RAIDed SSD setup.
I prefer to interpret the opposing party in such discussions as serving a vital function in a Socratic dialogue. Whether or not IHBT, it's useful to argue the issue with an opposing viewpoint.
This will set a bad precedent for such things (unless it is orchestrated as a sting operation).

If genuine, it would be interesting to know the primary motivation -- does Symantec not want the world to see its source because it is afraid its competition will steal its ideas ("our source code is full of awesome ideas") or its source code is pretty bad, sloppy, with backdoors for Uncle Sam that will pretty much shame the company ("our source code is awful and we'll be embarrassed if it was revealed").
I'd much rather see this with APC benchmarks.

I mean, that's supposed to be the native Opcode Cache with PHP!

My WAMP distro (http://www.devside.net/server/webdeveloper) is switching to it, as it's finally stable enough to use in production (eAccelerator had it beat for some time).

Also, Zend Optimizer only works with PHP as a non-thread-safe / FCGI process in PHP 5.3, so there goes it's use under the prefered Windows mod_php setup (Windows handles threads really well). The only time you want to use FCGI on Windows is if there are serious memory leaks.

It's hard to ignore Windows as a PHP paltform considering it's the majority of the webdev segment for PHP and about 1/3 of production for PHP.
Yes, but only if your referer indicates that you're coming from Google, otherwise you only get the offer to buy the answer, with no indication that it's available for free. Slimy. This is why I avoid ever linking to them, because anyone who is unfortunate enough to follow a link to EE gets a question with no answers.
Fine! Breast milk for everyone! I'm in favor. Like I said in my original comment, I think both sides are idiotic. Facebook is idiotic for censoring annoying but harmless propaganda (you said it) photos of women feeding their children in the semi-nude, and the women are idiotic for caring what 27-year-old Mark Zuckerberg thinks of their beautiful exposed breasts.

Yeah, I may find it annoying if Facebook disapproves of any activity I'd like to publicize to the world, but thankfully, we've got tumblr and other sites where we can post photos of us doing (almost) whatever the hell we want. I'd just go to tumblr (Note: I am in no way affiliated with tumblr, nor do I have a tumblr blog, or a Facebook account for that matter).

I take absolutely no part in the argument, and all I'm saying (for the last time) is: the way this protest is expressed, its origin and its target are interesting.
It doesn't take long to look up that the Syrian government was formed as a result of a coup decades ago, especially if you're going to make a comment about it.

EDIT: Actually I think there is a good point in your post, but I still think that familiarising yourself with the history of the country is necessary to understand where they are now.
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Actually I've found that in Silicon Valley, no one cares about quantifying programming levels, and care more about what you did and what you know.

When I applied for jobs on the East Coast, they all seemed to want things like GPA (even though I'd been out of school for 15+ years), and especially results from programming tests like Brainbench.
IPhone earns Apple more money than entire Microsoft
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> medicines, cancer...

http://www.forksoverknives.com
If you increase your skill/knowledge that doesn't hinder your ability to use PeopleSoft/SharePoint. It certainly expands your options. While you can get a good salary using those technologies, eventually they will be obsolete. When that happens, we'll start to see news stories posted on some future-HN about how older IT workers are being passed up for younger, fresher IT workers and how it is a biased industry. When in fact, its just a group of people who decided that sitting in their comfort zone doing their day-to-day was good enough and when it was time to move on, they couldn't find any other jobs that fit their particular niche they'd had for the last decade(s).
I think Donald Knuth, who must be placed at the Mystery Level, never went through the functional phases.

http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/m.j.bell1/blog/?p=49

DK on the subject of functional programming: “Out of the ~250 programs I wrote last year, 2-3 would have benefited from being written in a functional style.”

DK on the subject of functional programming: “With 1 or even 2 hands tied behind your back it’s hard to do anything dangerous.”
If license costs are so big that they become this important a factor in deciding how you will scale, they have become an operational problem of some size. Probably not a size which is imminently threatening to Stack Exchange. But it is not nothing, or it would not figure so prominently in this shop talk about how to upgrade.

It's certainly a factor worth weighing when you consider what technology you'll build on top of.

In no place have I "argued against what they've done" or implied that the company is a failure. Yet money IS a part of scaling, and managing expenses IS a part of business. I'm happy to take your word that Stack Exchange makes so much money that it cannot ever matter how much their licenses cost. But in the context of evangelism for others to make the same decision, I have to observe that the kind of reasoning casually mentioned in the article implies something that would be negative for many other businesses.

If you are offended by that sort of discussion of reality then you have too thin a skin (or a conflict of interests)
You sound like the slashdot review of the iPod

Not really, unless your world is binary. There are a lot of extremely refined, slick implementations out there. You don't know about them because they couldn't be called the "ipod of thermostats" (with leading comparisons with the ugliest, most rudimentary thermostats, as if the giant industry doesn't exist).

As for Nest's claims, I assume you're talking about energy savings and, if so, are so very, very wrong...I'm rather confident that the average American...

It is interesting how you arrived at such an energy claim with no clear avenue between the beginning and the end.
How many of those are already implemented in LibreOffice, though, and just need a new drawing mechanism. Building an office suite from scratch is far different from changing its rendering engine.
So I'm a 4.5, that's nice to know.
I think there should be a level "I believe I've reached a level where I can speak wisely about programming ability". Followed by the "Oh, oops. Now I see I STILL know nothing" level. ;)
This makes Symantec look a lot worse than "Anonymous" IMO. Symantec is supposedly a reputable computer software company. The fact that they have to resort to legal means to secure their own source code is not a positive indication that they do a good job.
one of the article's comments links to pastebin that appears to be the source code already posted - as of last night
We're not in the Post-PC era. We're in the PC-plus era
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Pretty much.. But my bubble is better then your bubble! :).

FWIW I am a "programmer".

This list also doesn't take necessity into account. Is "A" programmer better then "B" programmer if "B" programmer has never had to derive their own programming language while "A" programmer had this requirement or need?

This entire concept is just silly to me.
It would be nice if dns would tell us when the dns routing has been tampered with and or censored. We won't be able to stop governments from routing legitimate requests to dev/null, maybe we can at least deliver a report to the requester: "this request was blocked by government xyz, here is the traceroute and details on the cancerous growth in the tubes."
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This is so absurd that it sounds like a headline from The Onion. Truth is stranger than fiction, I guess.
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Because of course everything _else_ Anonymous has done is totally legal, above board, and not at all disreputable.
[...]while YouTube built a product that people actually used (using PHP and MySQL, I think, which is not at all technically impressive)

Just some fact checking. Could someone confirm this? I've been told in the past that Youtube was originally built with Python.
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I like the analogy but I don't think it's correct. CoffeeScript is not a simplified JavaScript. On the contrary. It adds more syntactic and semantic rules.
How do you know they aren't the same company? Who said anything about "their entire code base"? As this article says, Apple distributes plenty of GPL software. Did they release their entire code base?

Let me contrive a hypothetical, if it's still not clear to you...

Imagine you're a ruthless corporation and you don't care at all about the open source community. There is an open source software package that solves 95% of a problem for you.

If it's BSD, you will probably take it, write that 5%, use it, and not contribute anything back.

If it's GPL, you will probably take it, write that 5%, use it, and then grudgingly release that 5% back to the community so you don't get sued.

Note that I'm not saying GPL is always the best option and BSD is always worse. I'm just pointing out that, in your previous post, you miss out on one of the advantages of the GPL: it can encourage the release of open source code that otherwise would not have happened.
$3,000. I would leave $2,500 in the bank (on the CC). Explore manufacturers in China – Perform a few searches on ebay to see which products are the most popular – Import a few widgets with the $500. Ensure you can sell for more than the product costs and shipping expenses are. Review ‘Product Differentiators’ online to ensure that you can sell your product for a higher price than others by describing it better and introducing a higher perceived value.

Could work...I would say $6,000 in the hole - $500 will not really change your predicament?
No, Mac OS X wasn't ported to ARM by an intern
Is the code so embarrassing? If I wouldn't avoid them already, I would do so now.
Personally I see this as a permanent cycle where I'm on different levels for different things all the time. With some languages I'm on a high level, with others on a low one. Even within languages I know very well, there are parts I didn't use that much. Same for many other things like commandline tools, frameworks, api, databases. Often enough I go down on a lower level and for example work through a beginners tutorial just to have a reason to use a few things in Ruby on Rails which I don't use often enough in everyday work. Or simply to go through the cycle of setting up a developer machine with rvm, RoR, some gems, git, github. All this more as a kind of programming kata than because there would be any need.
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> I would suggest that it would be better framed as "is the guarantee of future source access sufficiently important that it effects their choice of tools?"

This is also a false dichotomy, although more cunningly hidden. It still assumes that giving users source access is somehow a hindrance to the creation of high quality software but Freedom and quality are orthogonal axises.

Removing freedom to see the source might not effect peoples choice it's self I agree, but really why should it also effect the quality of the software?

The obvious answer is software developed within business models based on vendor lock-in. However if you ask customers, "is the guarantee of freedom to change suppliers sufficiently important to your choice of supplier?" You'll get a very different set of answers.

> ...This is an incredibly egotistical position...

I agree.

GPL is not a license for developers, it's for users. In particular it's about giving users the choice of who to work with, and making it easy for them to do so. Whether that means modifying software themselves, directly paying people to modify software or simply changing some URLs in a config file (e.g. rsync.net) they have the freedom to choose. A freedom that is enforced directly in the programs they use, not via convenient business arrangements.
The source was leaked last night: http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7014253/Symantec_s_pcAnywhere...

Has anyone heard of an official response from Symantec?
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Developers make the software that goes on their platform. Microsoft didn't gain their huge market share in the 90s through magical spells; they won by being extremely developer-friendly. Without a "developer community", Apple wouldn't exist as a company.