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No. Stick to HN. Trust me. Most domestic portuguese language forums are inevitably full of bike shedders. Most of those that want a higher level of discourse stick to HN and IRC channels for their respective technology. This results in a vicious cycle of brain drain in the domestic forums, suppressing the level of discussion further.

My suggestion is to stick to HN and intl technology channels on IRC and Github and keep an eye out for telltale signs of a Brazilian by the name or other identifying info and reach out to them one by one. You may want to try out HackerNewsers to seed the network initially. http://hackernewsers.com/

Also, get in contact with Diego Remus of Startupi and Diego Gomes of EverWrite.
GDP measures the output of workers. So this result states that by giving people money, you either enable them to work, or enable them to employ other people by spending that money. Presumably (I admit, TLDR) this conclusion comes from calculating the multiplied effect of what the food stamps are spent on.

But how can we know that the net effect is positive? How can we know that, for instance, giving people money doesn't prevent them from working, thereby decreasing GDP?

After all, there is no control group in economics, which is why (frustratingly) there are still totally opposite camps who keep claiming that current events prove them right.
Trying 0xfff86350
Trying 0xff94b1a0
Trying 0xffdfb0a4
Trying 0xff85e754
$ whoami
level05

It is 5am - time for bed =)
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If you're dealing with a complex system that needs a lot of work, I would recommend trying to break it down into subsystems and handle the subsystems one at a time.

The original article does assume that you're dealing with a system that more-or-less works. If your application flatly doesn't do the right thing, than a big rewrite from scratch may really be the best choice - there's nothing to save.

But spaghetti code doesn't just fall from the sky, it occurs because of politics, stubbornness, and bad processes. Over the course of the 10+ years it took to make the code base, is it really the case that nobody but you noticed the problem? It's more likely that there's a lot of pressure going in the opposite direction, and other maintainers didn't know what to do either.

Dealing with subsystems helps you handle both problems. Management might not be willing to let you rewrite the whole thing, but if you said, "Let's just fix the boot-up process for the Cyclotron 4000 resource. Nothing else changes, just the Cyclotron boot." you might be able to get permission. In a badly-maintained project, it's hard to replace all the instances of one service - that's what makes it 'badly-maintained' - but it's still easier than dealing with the whole system in one go. And, of course, instead of 'fixing' the Cyclotron you're actually rewriting it with a new, non-wacko Cyclotron service.

Then you go back to your manager and say, "It was rough, but the Cyclotron 4000 no longer blocks the start-up. Let's get the next thing on the list." Not only do you have a slightly better project, you also have better credibility with management, which makes it more likely you'll be listened to when you say a certain technical measure is necessary. Next, fix the subsystem that talks to the Cyclotron - and so on. Pick a right time to introduce tests, code review, and all the rest.

Remember that just as you had the experience working with the terrible code base, your managers had the experience of working with the previous 3 or 4 software architects who "had their own vision" and delivered a product that doesn't start up reliably - I don't think it's surprising that there was no longer the political will to assign people to refactoring or rewriting tasks. Bad architecture uses up the political will needed to approve good architecture, because it makes all "architecture" tasks look bad. You need to regard you reputation as a finite, under-supplied resource just as much as your time and budget and plan to get more.

From your use of the past tense, it looks like you're no longer in that situation (good for you!)... but that would be my advice if you see a similar situation in the future. I've used this plan in my own career to rewrite a (much smaller, only moderately troubled) project piece by piece over the course of a year.
> "the secret police are going to make you disappear."

Easily said, Tony, as a white male living in America. Some of us actually lived behind the Iron Curtain, and secret police and antagonistic governments aren't "magical" and hypothetical to us.
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Glad to hear it! Let me know if you have any feedback on how it works!
This reinforces a truth that many fiscal conservatives are either ignorant of or choose to ignore. If the government spends a dollar, it does not disappear. It is paid to someone. They pay taxes on it. And then they spend it. And that person pays taxes on it. And so on and so forth. (excluding payments that go out to foreign entities)

Government spending isn't a drain. It is another piston in the financial engine. It also happens to be one of the most reliable and most pliable pistons in the engine.

You can think of the government as Herouku. Most of the time you're going to want to run as few instances as possible. When you make the front page of hackernews, you either need to jack up the instances or your site crashes.

We're drawing our lines in the wrong places. Some government spending is good. In some cases, massive government spending is good. A lot of the time the private markets do a better job. Sometimes they don't.

Paying food stamps is a great way to reduce crime and bolster the stability of your country. If you ignore the root causes you get long term issues. We need to fix the underlying problem and keep paying for food stamps. You can do both at the same time.
That's awesome. I didn't know about that.
Quite interesting. I feel that my spoken English has stuck to a certain level for an opposite reason: I don't care enough about mistakes and thus I don't actively try to improve my English. I just speak and either I get understood or try to explain my thought in another way.
I know there was a guy who spent years in jail on a contempt charge related to his divorce (the ex-wife claimed he has lots of money hidden about). I'll see if I can find a link for it.

EDIT: Here it is: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09192/983301-454.stm
This app is really great. It has already been incredibly useful.
Anyone know why net household wealth isn't more commonly used as metric for, uh, wealth?
We're located in Palo Alto, CA and entirely on-site right now. I'll add that info to the site :)
But you see, Amazon has no particular interest in selling you a Fire if you don't want to use it for the intended purpose- a vector to deliver Amazon content.
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What does interest have to do with the article and the experiments performed?

Seems to me that the performance of the test subject depended upon the type of praise given, not the interest of the subjects (which would have been consistently random across test groups)
I have some sympathy for the point of view that people visiting web-pages should not run ad-blockers. I don't run one myself. Unfortunately my willingness to see ads is being exploited by two things.

i) Shitty quality link-bait articles.

ii) people willing to serve some just plain awful ads. (Things with noise; things with Flash; things that blink and shake and in horrible colours; things that violate basic privacy and are borderline illegal in EU; etc etc.)

Please: Offer me sensible ads, or offer me a payment option.

I'm amazed at the number of newspaper sites that still don't offer an online only subscription mode. I have no interest in having a dead tree newspaper delivered to me, but I'm more than happy to pay for online access to good quality articles.

I'd happily pay to read articles suggested by Longform. Perhaps they should have a tipjar for each article with a suggested donation price; with a separate tipjar for their site running costs?
Building platforms is akin to building cars by hand - few do it that way anymore, and those who do are premium brands, built for very specific purposes wherein it doesn't make sense to automate those things. If cars were built all by hand, one by one, by "artists" they would not be affordable or as reliable as they are today. There is consistency, there is scalability, and there is reference in automation.

Do you think Amazon builds one compute node at a time? You may think it is art, but you can conversely look at a very sterile, well built environment where there is no room for error as art as well - something produced by DevOps.

Finally DevOps threatens nothing, at least nothing that shouldn't be. It promotes progress. Why? Because if your skill and craft is so good, why not be able to push it to the masses. And if you want to remain in the realm of niche then find the players that need one-off art. Past that, DevOps is long overdue.

DevOps hasn't ruined anything. Get over sysadmin as "art", otherwise I have unicorns and rainbows to sell you. Sure, there are good sysadmins and bad, but it's a stretch to say that you're so good your job can't be replicated with a build framework that fosters sane and repeatable process.
I was going off of this:

Luckily, Shire had magically possessed enough amphetamines from
their DEA quota to produce plenty of their new ADHD medication,
Vyvanse. In fact, Shire doubled its third quarter profits from 2010
to 2011, with most of that increase resulting from Vyvanse sales.
During this time, coinciding nicely with the Adderall shortage,
Shire hiked the price of Vyvanse.
The only professions that I can think of that have that possibility are: doctor, trader (finance) and investment banker (finance) and possibly lawyer. Anything I missed?
It's very easy for us to forget about variance and standard deviation of programmer productivity when all other factors are equal. Let's imagine we have 1000 of the world's best programmers working for a year on creative projects. All of them will try something innovative. Only some of them, however, will succeed.

Who succeeds is a function of what projects they were working on. And that, is almost purely random and a result of circumstances. We like to think that Sergey and Larey were more brilliant than anyone else, for example, but the truth is they just stumbled into the right thing at the right time.

Don't discredit yourself as a programmer for not yet having a huge stroke of luck.
I was 22 when I learned my second language (Spanish) I was immersed because my (now) wife spoke very little english when I met her. My in-laws don't speak any english even though they know a lot of words because they are "scared to say it wrong" I just listened until I knew enough and then started to string together words even if the grammer was wrong, Now I'm fluent. Funny thing is if you get my mother-in-law drunk she magically starts speaking english!
Nitpick - religion doesn't invent facts, it invents beliefs, many of which are not prove-able (i.e., assertions about 'right' and 'wrong') and many of which can be easily proved or disproved.

You can't invent facts, merely discover them. But you already knew that. /pedantic

EDIT:

Also, I don't think he asserted government spending causes inflation. I think he asserts that government deficit spending causes inflation. Minor difference.
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Her photo was the honeypot local law enforcement couldn't resist
I can and do blame them for being immoral and this clearly demonstrates that they have no interest in integrity or the truth. I don't "blame" them in any legal sense however.
Wow.

This makes me thing that Java is better for this kind of big "enterprise" application, not because it's faster or more enterprise or somesuch, but because it's more limited, and therefore less things can go wrong.

I worked in two banks, developing web banking in one and middleware service in the other, and while there were some strange things (what's with banks and XML, really?) there was nothing that terrible here.

But then I'm pretty sure that someone will share their Java horror story.
If I compare what we have to what a typical Roman had, I'd say we're pretty well off already.
Targeted advertising makes ad delivery efficient. If you somehow turned off all targeted ads today, the advertisers are getting less bang for their buck. The price they would be willing to pay sites will drop dramatically. How do you compensate for that lost revenue? More ads? "Donate with PayPal" buttons?

Although there are legitimate concerns about everyone tracking everyone, the Internet is less annoying overall as a result of the advertising efficiency of targeted advertising.
Didn't work. Deleted Cookies, Cache and databases.

It still knows who I am and asks for password.
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Too bad they don't apply it to the government. I know, the Fourth Amendment is pretty much toast. Still I have come to realize that if you reverse the meaning of the bill's title you get closer to truth.

This will simply codify the limits companies have to go to, can go to, without getting into trouble.

I am more worried about my privacy rights in regards to government agencies, like the IRS, the myriad of new agencies and regulations that will result from the Affordable Care Act, and that Nazi like Department of Homeland Defense.

Got to give the politicians credit, they are deft at redirecting the attention of the masses. Don't look behind the curtain, no no no, instead look over there.
Are probabilistic techniques still not considered conventional? It's not like the mathematical foundations of probability haven't been laid hundreds of years ago (I'm talking about the rules of inference, not the axiomatization).
If everyone followed this advise, most of my professional life today would consist of tweaking hundreds of bandaids for PostNuke modules and Classic ASP pages done in Visual Basic.

Technologies change. More importantly, requirements and visions change as well. Blindly throwing money at an existing system without considering alternatives is a really, really bad idea. And while you can argue that it's possible to refactor anything into anything else, you can't argue that it will always be cost-effective.
I agree that learning from mistakes is really important. I also think that memorizing and rote learning are a detriment to being fast at learning. You can't "get it" if you are memorizing.

If you have a firm grasp of something then you understand how to manipulate the concept in different contexts. Adding a new idea allows you to simply twist contexts to include the new knowledge and you've "learned" how to do that new thing.

As things get more complex, so does the contexts and thus it gets harder to "learn" if you've been doing rote learning all along. Rote learning is memorizing a new idea in a specific context and there is no room for morphing that context.

If you get good at morphing contexts to fit new ideas then you can also get good at taking two different contexts, merging them at getting new concepts out of it: this is the act of inventing.
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You ever tried to use cmake without it shitting the bed in some way? We're a ways off.
Hi, I use your fork of ShiftIt. It's great. So, thanks!

I keep meaning to spend some time making it a little more automatic ala XMonad/TylerWM. One of these days...
ShifIt does not currently support multiple monitors, as far as I know.
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Too funny. I sure hope this is satire. Personally, I find writing chef recipes, building cookbooks, defining roles and managing the attributes of systems to be more of a beautiful art and craft than managing systems individually. To me, automating infrastructure feels more like a beautiful masterpiece than building one-off servers that are poorly documented and rarely configured the same.

It's an amazing thing to "knife vsphere vm clone" and "knife bootstrap" a system! Even though I built and implemented our automated architecture I'm still amazed every time I have a precise production system in under 5 minutes servicing client requests.

I think Chef may have found the equivalent to my systems administration G-Spot =P
I would have more sympathy towards the "blocking ads is theft" view if ad-supported websites and applications didn't routinely claim they were free.

Either it's free (and we have no obligation to load ads, not that they should be involved anyway) or it costs some of our privacy and/or attention (so we should at least stick the ads on our screens, even if we don't consciously pay attention to them). But claiming that something's free and then whinging that we cut the ads out isn't on.
> I think people mean well when they re-use words like this.

You're being too generous.

> The lack of clean structure and terms makes talking about and resolving everything a lot more difficult than it should be.

That's the intent. There are many who benefit by maintaining the status quo. The last thing they want is to make things clear. When things are clear, the populace at large has a nasty habit of voting sensibly and in the process, disenfranchises the few who are benefiting at the expense of everyone else.

You have parasites on both sides of the isle. Ranging from unions to defense contractors. Clear and frank conversations are dangerous to people who draw a check from the government.
"...but they are not affiliated at all. It was operated by a completely separate entity"

Well if what you say is true, then it seems like they are affiliated and the CTO's above statement seems off. Of course you can be a separate entity and still be affiliated.

I would say "not affiliated" if said company was just paying them a flat fee per month to run their stuff on a subdomain. If they are, however, getting a percentage of revenue, it's a classic affiliate model.
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I just signed up and you created a profile page for me and pulled a picture from somewhere on the web automatically? Didn't ask for permission? No way to delete it?

Not cool, in my opinion.
That's actually the weakest point of the other article - any towing company will be able to move your bricked car even if the wheels leave skid marks all the way onto their tow truck.

Yes, you've hit the stronger point: why should you have to pay $40k, and it's not covered by your warranty or insurance?
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Check out Body Media. They've been doing this stuff for a long time. The worn location (upper arm) is also closer to your center of mass to gauge workouts.
I agree they're different, but I think something like labor-wealth is what a lot of people aspire to when they say they want to be wealthy. They don't just want to have a lot of stuff, but want to not have to work anymore to have it (i.e. own 100% of their own time), and they often want to be able to hire significant amounts of services from others (hire a personal chef, stay at fancy full-staff resorts, have a personal trainer, etc.). At least for now; perhaps as high-level robotics advances the wealthy will no longer be as interested in hiring human services.

I think it'll remain true at the higher levels of wealth, though, because if you have a lot of wealth, what it really translates into isn't just material goods (there's diminishing returns on how many of those you really need past a few hundred million $s), but the power to significantly change what a non-trivial number of people work on. You can start a company and hire 5,000 people to work on a project you think should be worked on; you can take a different route by initiating a prize like the X-Prize to encourage people to work on it that way; you can start a foundation or grant program; you can singlehandedly decree that [movie genre] is going to be a significant new segment, by promising to plow $1 billion into it; etc. The main thing huge sums of money buy you, imo, is this relative power in the economy, to push people to work on what you think should be worked on--- which necessarily requires that your wealth has to be large in relative terms, as a fraction of the economy.
Eh? They shouldn't have done it in the first place…
They've had these almost available for so long that I now assume there's some major flaw that they're not talking about.
This is BS. We had to borrow that $1 and we will pay interest on it for years to come.

Our government is broke and wasting money left and right. The spending spree is not sustainable.

Take a good look at Greece. That is the future of America if we keep spending money this way.
I think the point of this article is that it doesn't matter if you are top talent. It is detrimental to your growth think that you are. It is better to approach learning anything from a position of humility and interest rather thank thinking that you are hot shit.
Clever. So what's actually happening is a loss of $0.27 on every dollar spent on food stamps?
>"There was a turning point for me, somewhere between the purchase of a 33.6 modem and upgrade from 30 monthly hours to unlimited dial-up, when the Web changed from a curiosity to the best thing ever."

My experience mirrors yours! I paid $279.99 for a 28.8 modem, somewhere around 1995. At that point my internet service went through a local BBS that was charging a rate of $2.00/hour, unless you bought a package of 100 hours, in which case it was $1.00. I remember installing Netscape off two floppies. That was also the time I discovered MUDs. How I did't bankrupt my parents is beyond me. When ICAN.net (later Primus) came to Canada with an unlimited internet plan for $30 bucks, minds were blown.

The internet is the technology that fundamentally transformed my life. Love seeing these articles, thanks for the nostalgia.
"Never rewrite software from scratch?" !? Wasn't Mac OS X a complete rewrite from Max OS 9?
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It doesn't work for me - always freezes when I start it.
I'm sorry, you give too much credit to "standard newspapers."

They do very little fact checking, if any.

However, being well-established might make them an easier target for libel / defamation. That doesn't seem to scare them into better reporting, though.
In addition to the other factors listed here, Postgres's default configuration was tuned to a dramatically underpowered machine for many years. Yes, that meant that the occasional user who did have that kind of machine saw acceptable performance out of the box, but the other 9/10 systems burned a lot of the DBA's time tuning the system. I think that's a big reason why Postgres has a reputation for difficulty in some quarters.
I think it depends. I'm pretty sure phone books and street directories are copyrightable. You can get copyright on collections of facts, this is how a phone book is copyrightable.
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Paying down debts promotes long term growth though capital acquisition. Someone invested that money in a loan, they now have that money back plus a little interest, they are now going to look for someone else to loan that money to or do a direct investment.
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It's your Gravatar - http://gravatar.com - you probably uploaded it voluntarily at one point for precisely this kind of situation :)
No, I think he's implying that people are using NoSQL solutions because they've been hyped a lot and are fashionable. And that's most certainly the case (certainly not the only reason in all cases, but most certainly a reason in many cases).
That's just false. Technological and societal progress was immensely faster when average lifespan skyrocketed in the 20th century that the ancient times when people died at 50
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