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A better grade is more important than delivering in a reasonable time? I think you might have missed my point, you can get A an but the point of the education is not to get an A, its to learn the material.

If they can learn the material, get a very reasonable grade, an AB and spend far far less time I want to work with that person. This person is more likely to be a hacker because they see that there is such a thing as diminishing returns with grades.
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so the thing is, this is very difficult to quantify and thus talk about. It also totally depends on the size of your codebase, the size of the team, and the timeframe of the business. if anything, i would have even higher value to my current employer by being less ruthless - we have necessarily tight business windows, and as the deadline looms closer, we slide back on quality to hit it.

5 years ago i was reading code complete and all those books, and whined a lot about all the poorly factored code in its interleaved and tangled glory. I thought I was the best programmer ever and took pride in my perfectly factored little modules. As I get older, I have a lot more respect for my elders and betters - they are solving harder problems than I am, problems that if I had attempted I would have a perfectly factored solution that meets half the requirements. Is it a bitch to maintain all that Java? it sure is, but we're all well paid, and our customers are begging us to bid on proposals we don't even want.
Not interested.

I really don't give a shit if my ego continues to survive forever. I only care about this particular instantiation because under my (to be frank, likely to be flawed) interpretation this is the only "I" I ever perceive.

This gets more complicated because we don't have any guarantees on the continuity of consciousness as it is (when you awoke this morning, are you still the "same" person?)… but barring any more cogent arguments I'm gonna stick to it.
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In fact, it can bite you in the ass when it comes review time - people review you as an obstruction to getting things done. Note, this isn't always true; when it is, it's a good sign that you shouldn't be working for the company. But in some geographic areas, even IT/Dev positions are hard to come by.

I have a friend who runs into these kinds of problems all the time. Complains incessently about them, how he hates IT/networking and wants to get out of it. Every story he tells reminds me how grateful I am to work at an amazing company. His excuse for not finding an amazing company? He doesn't want to move away from where he lives.

What can you say to someone in that position?
I will argue that there is no need for a 200 dollar Gumstix ARM Cortex A8 in there. Not even close.

A 16-bit microcontroller (< 5 USD) would pull it off, but you'd need to custom code most of the software to power that.
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Think about it.

I have a limited time on earth, yet I chose to spend it with you. Cuddling on this couch. Watching a movie. I think by the finite nature of our existence it imparts a little bit of significance to any sacrifice we might make to our own utilitarian maximizing.
Are you talking specifically about the notifications?

If so: GNTP is what I'm using for the notifications throughh Growl and there's already a Growl for Windows that supports GNTP (http://www.growlforwindows.com/gfw/help/gntp.aspx). I haven't used, so not sure if/how well it works.

Otherwise, if you're talking about the configuration and headless service aspect, I could see some room for a more generalized template. I wonder if already exists for that.
I had the impression this was a bit of a joke, for that reason. "No sir don't mind me while I pull the pin on this grenade here, continue with the meeting."

The android app for rooted phones is a great idea though. That's much easier to run in promiscuous mode and sneak past everybody.
Disagree. Forbes now print comments in the magazine. It's awful. I unsubscribed.
Stability - I'm not sure that any of the current lua port drivers are terribly robust. Even if they were, it's easier to reason about the behaviour of Erlang code than native code within the VM.
Good traffic for the blog though. Traffic is quite... valuable these days.
Worthwhile topic, but the misspelling in the title is a little off-putting. :(
Unless it only takes you an hour or two to whip up the entire network stack including the crypto I think it's pretty cost-effective to splurge on the processor that can run linux.
That's about completely changing the game, though. You can't beat an incumbent, just by doing the same thing as he is, but better. You need a product that changes a lot of the rules of the competition in that market, and then you need for the market and customers to follow that vision as well. Only then an incumbent can be beaten because they will be slow to adapt to the new rules.
Turing worked on a family of partial differential equations called "reaction-diffusion equations", and determined that for particular choices of the parameters, they produce phenomena similar to tiger stripes, leopard spots, and the like. One doesn't have to describe this in terms of biology; mathematically it is already interesting on its own.

But how much cooler is it that this can be observed by a visit to a zoo! He (or perhaps biologists who studied his work?) conjectured that some biological process behaved according to his equations, and therefore produced the behavior they model. However, until now, no one had ever found such a process.
I think there's a Cold War of plagiarism suits the way everyone and their dog seem to be copying from each other. That must be the only reason the NYT aren't throwing a fit - I know I would, if someone did that to my blog articles.

It seemed particularly bad to plagiarize a feature article like that, though.
Interesting. Do you know of a work around for "open in new tab"? Would "save link as" be counted?

I guess the server side logs would come-in handy in that case.
You know, these conversations always seemed to come down to discussions of "good code" vs. "ship quickly". I don't think that the point. Getting an MVP to market takes more than one iteration on the code, and even as early as refactor/debugging number 3, you can (and will!) be bit by bugs written in iteration 1 if you're writing bad code. The best stories are always about bad decisions from 6 months ago or more, but this can happen in the course of a single weekend.

Writing good, clear interfaces and using them appropriately does not slow you down. It lets you move faster, think clearly, solve harder problems, and build more.
Not that it might matter to your reply, but FYI: I added a couple of sentences just as you were posting.

Clearly, your experiential matrix is not the same as mine. I'm 45, and I've worked in many different environments since I was about 15, when I was at a boys-only school, which, by the way, functioned quite well without devolving into anything resembling Lord of the Flies.

The lack of women in software development indicates that there aren't enough women who can "take it like a man", so to speak. Whatever men dish out is merely a social filter, designed to rid their environment of those (men and women) who can't handle pressure. If you are much shorter than me, and I want you gone, the first thing I'll do is to repeatedly call you "shorty", because that's an easy way to start, as it's the low-hanging fruit in the insult aisle.

Either you are qualified, or you aren't. That wasn't bullshit a hundred years ago, and it shouldn't be today. You make the assumption that women can be highly skilled. My experience is that, in general, they are not, and most of the few who are, have a personality which clouds their judgment. Knowing how to program is not enough for the job. You need to have non-related life skills, such as dealing with people who don't like you, or who are otherwise in your way.
"how much did Forbes add to the original content to warrant a clickthrough? "

Forbes filtered the article and presented the most enticing part.

Filtering/curation is of enormous value - on the web and in app stores. It's ironic that you post this on a news aggregator site. The corresponding (but perhaps more obviously absurd) argument is what value does Hacker News (or Reddit) add to these stories that HN/Reddit deserve your page views? Just visit all the target sites yourself! Skip the middleman.
Real cool, must when it comes to actually writing code:

- UITableView approach is megalomaniacal, could use some love.

- XCode sometimes sends you straight to the subclassing hell. Specially if you don't have a well defined model before you start dragging stuff into your storyboard.

- Lots of iOS SDK classes will help you into taking the anti-pattern road. For instance: UIView:UIResponder.
> A 16-bit microcontroller (< 5 USD) would pull it off, but you'd need to custom code most of the software to power that.

So it's an engineering trade-off: You "don't need" something complex, not at all, nope (but if you use the "simpler" solution, other parts become more complex as a result).

I've noticed this multiple times before, and it annoys me: "Simpler" is not always better; in fact, it isn't even always simpler!

I don't mean to jump on you in specific, but this idea does come up again and again, often in places like Hacker News.
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The technique exploits the redirection mechanism of most login pages. Consider the url "foo.com/login?redirect_after_login=%2Fimages%2Fspinner.gif". If you put that url as the src of an img tag, and the user is logged in, some sites will 302 you to the image. If you are not logged in, the src will be the login page, and you can detect the difference with javascript.

Quote from the site:

What happens if you visit the login page with a ‘redirect on login’ parameter and you are already logged in? When implemented in a naive fashion you are simply immediately redirected to the page specified in the parameter. Some sites limit that parameter to being another page on the same domain, but we’ll see that doesn’t help for this trick.

This mechanism is open to abuse in exactly the way I needed; I could set the ‘redirect on login’ page to be an image file on the same domain. For example:

<img src="https://twitter.com/login?redirect_after_login=%2Fimages%2Fs... />
In this example, if I am logged in Twitter is kind enough to 302 redirect me to the image file I specified, but if I am not logged in I am show the login page. It turns out that both Twitter and Google’s login mechanisms are susceptible to exactly this trick. It seems LinkedIn and Tumblr are currently immune to this, though I didn’t dig too deep so there might be another redirect URL for them.
MIT did away with SICP in its intro class a few ago. Quite a shame, but that's the subject of another post.
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a lot of projects are taking a soft process, like legal compliance, and trying to automate it. when you have requirements like < http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyIsPayrollHard > perhaps the best factoring of interfaces, the best set of metaphors, aren't obvious, or are shifting. It certainly isn't something you can get right on the first try - if it was, we'd just Waterfall it and call it a day. So, yes, it is precisely a balance between future agility and shipping now - except if you don't ship now, you might not need the future agility ;)

me saying this is particularly ironic because i'm the guy pushing scala adoption, clean code, fixing our abstractions, etc. i'm also less valueable to the business over the one-year timeframe that dictates my comp because of it. The only people incented to relenentlessly care about things like technical debt are those with equity.
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You might look at Flickr as well: http://www.flickr.com/services/api/

And I don't know whether the Google+ API supports geolocation yet, but I expect it will soon if it does not.
I don't see how Forbes "stole" the New York Times article. If anything they helped drive traffic to it, anyone interested in reading the 9 page article will do it. The 9 page NYT article itself was based off a 400 page book that is about to be released. The NYT article isn't stealing the book, anyone interested in reading 400 pages on the subject will. The NYT has a blog about news articles (http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/), if they wanted to blog about their own article they could have.

There are good reasons to have the same information published with different levels of detail, they target different people, and can help lead people who are interested into reading the more detailed versions. For example the NYT wrote a 2 page article entitled "Flaw Found in an Online Encryption Method," which was based on a 17 page research paper. The NYT didn't steal the research paper. I personally think the NYT article on encryption was a scare story lacking in almost all technical detail, but it helped publicize research so people interested in the subject could read the full paper.
I like the android app too. My comment was more of a "Please don't get shot" type of thing. I really like it when artists who do this sort of work stay alive.
So what you're saying is that you should save the 10$ from the 15$ you pay for a Cortex and instead spend many many days to end up with a outlandishly slow solution?

I take it this is supposed to inspect network traffic, at some point you need some raw throughput.
Looks good, congrats!
So far as I can tell, Hacker Dojo is one particular place in the Bay Area. Do others exist in other areas?
> Yeah, especially when you take into account that some of them are using a proper ORM and others are just using straight SQL queries. Sinatra looks twice as fast as Rails at DB based pages, but if they through in ActiveRecord in the Sinatra app it might be even closer.

Absolutely. It's also true the other way - you don't have to use ActiveRecord with Rails, or the native ORM with Django, etc.

Of course, we already know that these benchmarks don't really have any parity, but they're interesting at a very high level as long as you understand why one might be faster.

PS: A more complex test would be nice, though - at a cursory glance, Django's ORM doesn't appear to be as slow as it used to be/is often attributed to be.
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Yes, perhaps "dojo" is a term for the Bay Area ones, but there are other groups across the country where people get together to code collaboratively.
From the sound of it, then, this is the same as the normal healing/coping process, except the road is shorted with the assistance of drugs?
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How to build your own laser printer:

http://www.amazon.com/Build-Postscript-Laser-Printer-Bundle/...

Has anyone here built a printer before? I'd like to build one for Richard Stallman and his Lemote YeeLoong, and send it to him with the source code.
I don't know where you got those numbers from. The savings difference (after buying the needed hardware for networking, etc. for the non-comprehensive solution) would be along the lines of a hundred dollars (if not closer to 150).
I don't understand this line of thinking.

Even in startup culture, it makes sense that some business (existing lives) have to die in order for new business models (those yet to be born) to emerge.

What's to say that the existing lives won't hinder growth that would happen from new lives being born and re-imagining the world that everyone is used to?
I think the accusation of shilling isn't as easily dismissed as you seem to think.

Muller is notorious for taking anti-Google positions, and his anti-Google stance appears to be so extreme it affects his judgement.

Meanwhile, he is getting paid by Microsoft unknown amounts of money for unknown work - it's not just a single report. To quote:

He says that he and Microsoft have worked together more than once, but that because of a confidentiality agreement with the company, he can’t elaborate on the details of that relationship

http://paidcontent.org/article/419-is-patent-expertblogger-f...

A further quote from that article is interesting:

Mueller may have perfectly good reasons to consistently zing Android—he’s far from the only pundit that has consistently strong views about a particular company. But given his financial relationship with that company’s archenemy—and the fact that Microsoft has a history of “hiring” outside experts to attack the competition—it’s hard to regard him as a disinterested party. The time has come for Mueller to amend the conflict of interest disclaimer on his blog and for the media to cease citing him as an impartial authority.
>MDMA is a drug you take with your wife once and a while to open the floodgates of emotion and talk about any little thing that could possibly be bothering you or hindering the relationship without fear of repercussion.

Yes this is true you can actually get pure MDMA and it's not x, and you do use for different effects. I guess I interpreted the OP as "this has the potential for abuse" as in "selective memory wiping" or some other SF context you can assume from this misleading title. I have no problem with recreational "abuse".
What I would do if I was on the receiving end of that conversation:

Get really excited and started coding on your laptop. Code the entire thing and do a great job. Make it really shine for the guy, follow up on his comments, tell him "excellent idea, why didn't I think of that". Do it all locally. After an hour or two of this, the idea guy should be smugly confident about how awesome he is and what a good idea coming to the dojo was. When it is all finished, start to walk away or start working on something else. The idea guy will probably ask something along the lines of "Wait, can I haz it?"

Then quote an obscene hourly rate and ride out the storm. "Oh, you mean you actually want to have this? Sorry, I thought this was just a practice exercise or something. It will cost about $300 for me to send it to you." At the very least, he won't be so assuming anymore.
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With all due resepct, bollocks. The dispatcher is not tested at all here for example. To do a proper test add in some complicated url dispatch rules, session handling, various kinds of nasty hard-to-abstract-out business logic and we might be talking. The trouble is there you're then talking about a week's work to write each app. On the other hand the "benchmarks" are an interesting ultra-simple rosetta stone.
In a big market (NY, Chicago, DC) at a firm working for corporate clients, you're looking at ~$170k/2700 hours. For a more senior person (5-7 years in), you're looking at ~$280k/3000 hours.

You can almost certainly make more on a per-hour basis as a contractor in the software sector, but lawyers are risk averse and prefer a stable flow of work and decent health insurance. :D
I completely agree - except this is a hobby project, not something serious in the first place. If you're hand-tooling the metal parts for the grenade, CAD designing the parts, and machining them or 3D printing them, it would seem that novelty is the factor.

If you can save 100-150 bucks while increasing the cool factor and having a more fulfilling rewarding experience (like you said, this is Hacker News, after all), why not?
We (Formstack) launched http://shoutmy.biz last month. It's goal is to provide a great looking landing page for small businesses who otherwise don't have a web presence. I'd love to hear feedback from the HN crowd!
If I recall correctly this was initially a blog which was going to interview aussie startups, see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3232161

It never really went anywhere (and I did try to push for an interview). What sort of guarantee do we have that this is going to have more investment in your time?
> very few elderly patients are lucky enough to die in their sleep.

That doesn't have to be a matter of luck. If we allowed people the dignity to choose, while still lucid, to end their life, or to set up a strict set of conditions upon which their life will end, we could drastically reduce the suffering involved in death, both for the dying and for their families and friends.
Re "Pages should have only HTML. JS files only JS. JS files referenced at the very bottom of the body. Very simple."

I suggest you view the source of http://api.jquery.com/ready/ before making that assertion. If it was that simple why is the website providing documentation for jQuery not doing so?
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Soon after starting the blog I had the realization that I wasn't the best writer and that I wanted to be a coder so I've decided to refocus my time on something I care about more.
You are right. It's like a mini-MVP off.

PS. I'm the Zac Bowling from that article.
There's mandatory Internet censorship in Australia, in a sense that it's funded by the government and users have no choice except to leave. It's a form of making censored Internet subscriptions cheaper than Internet Freedom subscriptions that will lead those ISPs to exit market. Heard of NBN? What if the government says that ISPs must have 'appropriate criminal filters' in place to be eligible for NBN access? Look to UK for more (Remember Wikipedia being blocked?).

Both parties have been known to support the ability to declare war without parliament (USA/UK need to ask). It's controversial to be in the parties and support parliamentary requirement to go to war.

There's many secret copyright enforcement meetings and rumours are abound that they are discussing ways to use the piracy phenomenon as a form of economic bogeyman to spy on small businesses for the big businesses. Not only that, but there's implications that the government likes the ability to spy and restrict opposition groups. Even The Pirate Bay colourfully said that copyright lobby is so powerful that ISPs are forced to attend 'optional meetings to discuss ways of reducing copyright infringement'.

Did you know that police can now issue $1320 on-the-spot fines and confiscate all electronic equipment deemed involved in piracy? It's per infringement, so 100 pictures can easily become a $132k fine.
"It's easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to get permission."

Possibly, but people who are constantly apologizing are usually annoying, manipulative, cloying, or insincere.
I do not assume such.

However, if you look at the current US congressional seats, you will see only those two organizations. Correct me if I am wrong, but that seems fair to say that despite whatever efforts other political parties are making, they are largely irrelevant with respect to effective policy being made.