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This is brilliant advice.

"What I discovered after this journey of learning is that it's not the languages that matter but what you do with them."

For those developers who have only discovered the nirvana with one, or two languages, and love their rails, djangos, closures to death, just know that if one exists, there's always the possibility that there's more.

Just because you aren't aware of them doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Get building. Customers simply don't care what you code in, and very few languages give an overall edge to developing, most languages have very capable frameworks that all have their pros and cons that even out.

The question is, can developers stop foaming at the mouth and seeing the world just one way? Seems a little fanatical.
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Yeah. Apple isn't known for sweating the small stuff.

Accident my ass! Incompetence, at best. If this was Microsoft or Oracle, not Apple, HN would be grabbing their pitchforks in three seconds.
Dang... that makes GMaps look like Bing ;)

In my town (Santa Barbara, CA) OSM looks decent - not as many details as GMaps, but more than some others...
Kind of amazing how this post made it to the top again. It seems HN is much more of an echo chamber than I thought.
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I don't know much about the attack, but the data seem to be 100% legit and really hacked from the Stratfor database.

My wild guess is that Sabu was not responsible for the idea, but was instructed by his FBI supervisors to just play along and help people with the attack to build up credibility. Meaning - the feds didn't modify the data at all, they probably just used the server to track down the IPs.

Anyway, the fact that Sabu was an informer is surprising to me, a lot. Especially when he was still posting tweets, accusing OTHERS of being informers.
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That sounds good. I should say that a) I haven't thought about this enough to produce working code, I was just offering my impressions after reading your website; and b) it's not obvious that this is a core value point (for instance, there's no code sample for inbound on the developer page).

Based on the other comments, it seems like I'm not the only HN reader who doesn't really understand your value from your website.
Also it may have changed in newer versions but I know the ${sayHelloTo} template used to be static once it was set it could not be changed, using the dojo attachpoint used to be the recommended way of connecting to template variables.
The Genius Bar employees have very wide latitude to waive charges. If you're polite/friendly with them, and if you are obviously competent and able to make their job easier (show up on time or slightly before, don't complain if you have to wait, have all the debugging steps done, be able to assist with simple debugging steps, HAVE THE MACHINE FULLY BACKED UP BEFORE ARRIVING, etc.), they're more likely to waive charges.

Another tip for OSX apple machine service: have an "apple:apple" temporary account created (as admin) for them to run tests, rather than having to log them in to your account or give them your password, especially if you use filevault. I don't really know what the equivalent is for iOS -- maybe turn off passcode lock before showing up?
Small correction: the first twitter page downloads ~2MB. Most of the images, JS, and CSS get cached, so every page after the first downloads much less data.
We're built on the Twilio API, we add a lot of features that you'd need to build yourself otherwise, like: sending and receiving messages, contact management, scheduled messages etc.
listening on the local device and having no UAC seems pretty standard to me.

If you want to expose anything, you have to do it very explicitly and as linked there are warnings and advice about doing so.
Exactly, it's a very pragmatic move. After all, who has more lawyers? I think that people need to ask the question, "What do I hope to get out of this particular thing I'm about to do or say?" more often, as opposed to, "What am I justified in doing or saying?"
If you want to put forth the requirement that you and everyone else on your team must be as good as John Carmack, sure.
The death of (traditional) consoles is already under way
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This was a pretty irritating title to appear in RSS. Who?
Thanks, that's great feedback, the developer page is definitely in v1. You can see the send and receive functions on our getting started guide: http://apidocs.sendhub.com/GettingStarted.html#viewing-the-i...
If that's the case, then why is CouchDB treating it as a security error, and "fixing" it in 1.2.0? Change of heart?
But what you "don't think that employers think" and "think the real problem is" isn't really backed up by anything but your views of employers and women, is it?
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Do you honestly think everyone on the team that developed the id Tech 3 engine was as 'good as Carmack'? I don't think he wrote the whole engine by himself.
The ietf draft confused me by saying spdy runs over tcp, instead of saying it runs over tls over tcp. Probably I am misreading it --- I'm out of practice at reading rfcs, and I expect it would have been all over HN if they were no longer mandating tls --- but I didn't find any language in the current draft that says it runs over tls.
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Despite reports suggesting that the problem had been fixed, however, that may not actually be the case.
John Walker, Autodesk's founder and writer of the book "Hacker's Diet", has this to say about exercise for hackers:

http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/www/subsection1_2_5_0_1.htm...

"the case against exercising seemed straightforward and overwhelmingly persuasive.

Exercising consumed time.
Exercising was not programming.
Therefore, by exercising, less time was available for programming.

I'm a hacker--I like to program! Substitute your own favourite activity for programming and you'll see what I mean. In addition, exercise carried all the unpleasant connotations of high school calisthenics, or the equivalent indignity of more modern, yet equally regimented, forms of workouts.

But is there a flaw in this argument after all? Indeed there is. The premises are correct, but the conclusion doesn't account for the fact that regular exercise will, in all likelihood, allow you to live longer. Let's look at the numbers.

So, if you're 40 years old, and you exercise 15 minutes a day from now until you turn 65, you'll have spent a total of about a quarter of a year exercising in those 25 years.

But, if by exercising you manage to live 3 years longer, you're ahead by a total of two and three quarters years by age 65--1000 days. Your increased life span works out to an additional 172 minutes per day from age 40 through 65. Even after spending 15 minutes exercising, the life extension you can expect from getting into shape gives you what amounts to two and half more hours per day to do whatever you enjoy most! Even if you live only one additional year through physical fitness, you'll still end up with 270 more days by exercising.

Of course, we're talking percentages here; you could be run over by a truck tomorrow. But hey, if you're in shape you may dodge that truck! "
Apple only charges $29 to repair a cracked iPhone 4S back glass.
The offer was just last year. You probably can go back to the table with them to talk about the offer they made and if they're still interested.

Or, shop around, which is time-consuming. If there are multiple offers, it's up to your group to decide.

Or, this may not the option you're looking for but, i think, this is your BEST option....

SHIP IT!

Only then you'll know how much it's actually worth. Look for ways to manage it - outsource the management of the product if it needs some backend support. Maybe find another co-founder who has the time to run the product.
All the best. And I was (and still am for lots of things) and EC2 user who is now heavily using Heroku, but just didn't get it at first. That's where I am with this right now. I love Twilio, I got it and had an entire application (SMS send/receive, call receive, etc) up and running and debugged in an afternoon. I think that you might have that resistance among people who have used Twilio already.
Well, at the very least we wouldn't have to hear it referenced every time a government or company does something, so that's a plus.
Also solder wicks, for those of us who don't have rework stations.
Process security is very common even when the process listens only on a socket.
You may laugh, but when Sync/MyTouch hangs in my EDGE all I have to do is: stop my car, shut down engine, open driver door, close driver door, start the engine - and it reboots!!! : )
If you can find the video of the author, Timothy Gallwey, teaching a middle-aged out of shape lady in a muumuu to play tennis in one hour, it's really inspiring.
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CouchDB introduced new functionality that allows extra use cases, in particular it can now handle npms use case in a secure manner, just because it didnt handle npms use case before and npm decided to expose that information does not mean it was ever couch's problem.
I am sure it's due to geography. Looks like ill be in Dallas for the next 2 years on a project - so my experience may change :)
Yah my first reaction after reading his post was hmm... watch me make a WordPress blog in 30 seconds. There are so many tools and templates and bootstraps out there to create a website in 10 minutes. The title definitely should have been something along the lines of what you suggested.

I was vaguely hoping the article was going to be about a mindhack for getting out fast blog posts. I can create the blog layout in 10 minutes, but the content is much more difficult sometimes.
Just out of curiosity, how much is it tied to Node? I mean, I imagine the server side could be implemented in other languages, but how much are you leveraging the fact that Javascript is used on both server and client? Just wondering because I'd be interested in running this with a Python back-end.
Yup. One number rarely tells the entire story.
Third option: there is no "fix," on either end, so telling people to change all their passwords is pointless.
My thoughts exactly. IMHO, published data cannot - by definition - be stolen. Private data can.
Or ignorant.
Ha - I like the [English] expert programmer. When I started coding I spent one evening looking for a maths.h bug...
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I think many are dismissing this as "standard TOS/EULA legalese" and missing the point. Let's consider a scenario: let's say you post some photos online, and license them under the CC-By-SA license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/). Then someone pins the photos you took to Pinterest. Next, Pinterest sells the photos you took, then catches someone copying or modifying the photos you took and sues them for copyright. To top it all off, Pinterest doesn't even give you attribution.

This is exactly the sort of thing that CC and GPL were created to combat: ruining someone's life through the legal system based on abuse of the copyright system. You want to sue someone over copyright violations of information you have copyright on? Fine. You want to sell something licensed under CC-By-SA? Fine. But you better be ready to comply to the license and allow whoever you give those works to the right to copy, sell and modify those works. I highly doubt Pinterest is prepared for this, and their TOS is overreaching.
This parallels much of the photography community, there are people who know every technical aspect and could talk for days about what f-stop/shutter speed to use in certain circumstances etc.. And then there are people who go out and take beautiful photos of beautiful things.

The point is Photography is not about equipment "I can't take that photo without this lens" it's about photos you can take.

Programming is not about Languages and Code structure it's about making something useful using the knowledge you have (Twitter could have been made with PHP or Python or any number of other languages, it still would have been "Twitter") Heck look at PG and Viaweb, none of the users cared that it was made with Clisp just that it did what they needed it to do.
It could be argued that it already exists and that its called mercurial. Functionally equivalent to git, but with a _much_ simpler interface and better windows support.

Git has a little more momentum, probably because of Linus' pedigree, but I'm convinced that mercurial is objectively a better Git DVCS.
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i had a ton of fun during a few of my MIT P.E. classes and ended up incidentally meeting at least one guy whom i became good friends with later in life (when people ask where we met, "P.E. class" is an unexpected answer).

there might be some value in "forced" non-academic activities, as long as people don't take it too seriously. iirc the P.E. teachers were often grad students who loved their sport, not jaded old fogies from middle school nightmares.
Thanks, we didn't build the API with CORS in mind but if you have suggestions or use cases, we're always open to making it easier for developers.
Yeah, it's been mentioned before. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3289750 And I realize that arguing about salary differences is very uncool on international Women's Day, but really I am worried about the lack of women in tech much more than I worry about a 5% salary difference.
Bah, I've written before about why "crowdfunding" research is cute but entirely ineffective. I should just save the response and paste it every time an article like this comes up.

Basically, this can only work for tiny projects. Any life sciences related project can't be funded at all. Consider a single vial of antibody (50uL of liquid) costs roughly $300. Reagents are expensive...there is a reason the NIH hands out grants which are $100k to $1m.

Hell, just paying for a technician to perform the experiment is about $25-30k/year (which is dirt cheap compared to basically any other field of skilled labor), ignoring benefits.

Science is expensive.
I don't see how this is relevant. If Comcast were to sell this (or an equivalent device), they'd keep all the traffic within their own network.
Here's a question (that will probably get me down-voted generously):

Is the cost to employers of hiring women the same as it is for hiring men?

e.g. Parental leave. More women than men take it. What does it cost a company when a woman goes on maternity leave? In the U.S., are they required to pay her wages during her leave? In many situations they will have no choice but to fill the position with a temporary worker since the woman is guaranteed the option to return. How much does it cost a company to hire a short-term replacement? The replacement may demand higher wages for short-term work and be less productive while learning the job. Will the woman be as productive when she returns as when she left? What additional costs crop up if the woman opts not to return? Does the state or federal government offer any kind of "baby credit" to employers to offset these expenses?

Yes, I agree that discrimination is bad but, if there is a real financial reason behind it, it's not going to go away without making some changes.
I've been noticing the ramifications of a consolidation around github for a while.

The first was when I heard about githire. And there were other people were saying that they wanted to see your github user-page as a resume (or they wanted the much more sane but still very flawed requirement: a github link on a resume).

Yesterday I was on an open source project's website looking for the repo link and just couldn't find it, pages that talked at length about how open source they were had no link, the download page had source tarballs but no link. Then my mind clicked: they're using github and just assume that its the only place people anyone would ever look for source. Ten seconds later I had found the source on github.

Right now it just seems like a curiosity (I probably wouldn't want to work for someone with such harebrained hiring process anyway) but I do worry that the trend might have some bad implications in the future.
But if we're doing that will that really be that different from current client-server implementations?
Who cares what Apple wants? _OSM_ wants everyone to know that Apple is using their data.
Thanks, great feedback. We're definitely focused on developers not yet using Twilio for their apps or don't have the time to manage in and outbound messaging on their current apps.
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> I, for one, will get nothing out of Cameron traveling to the bottom of the ocean that drop cameras have not already produced.

This is true only if you assume that the advances being made in materials and technology will not have applications beyond deep water manned submersibles.

As a comparison: Do you contend that you got nothing out of the development of manned space flight?
i never sensed P.E. class resentment from fellow MIT students during the time i was there. it's a light requirement, and people often chose activities that they would like to learn for fun (e.g., sailing, archery, badminton). no memories of middle school style locker stuffing or wedgies.
Guess what, some male programers earn more than double than other male programers "doing the same job".

Most salary negotiations are private, so if any conclusions are to be drawn it is the fact that women are 5% less effective at negotiating.

Also it's hard to take this seriously without exact numbers. It's hard to credibly measure this because there are a lot more male programmers.
Well it seems to me we are all in the wrong industry!

I'm sure none of these healthcare guys have to deal with fierce competition from all over the world, exponentially increasing automation, the constant threat of outsourcing, etc...

Someone mentioned how the hospital charged him $125/hour for a nurse and all she did was bring a glass of water to the patient. Try to extrapolate that situation to IT and see what kinds of crazy numbers you get.
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Discrimination on those grounds is reasonable but unfortunately it is illegal in many jurisdictions.
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3448677

This is a pretty standard 'hiccup' in manufacturing. Sadly its more common when your factory is 'remote'[1] than it is when your factory is local. If you read Bunnie's blog [2] about the Chumby he's got a number of fascinating stories about how things can go sideways.

Take notes you budding product designers that requires manufacturing actual widgets, its a whole lot uglier than you might think :-)

[1] yes that is code for 'outsourced to China.'

[2] http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?cat=6
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Rats. I don't think there was archery back in my day. I did pistol, sailing, and 2 sessions of fencing. At least I didn't have to sign up at 8 am.
C NOT GOOD FOR LARGE PROJECTS?

MAKE QUAKE-C

Though for Doom3 and on, they did switch to C++, which makes absolutely minimal usage of the language features, heh. I guess old habits die hard.
I think the fact that we're all dissecting his work in order to criticize the Agency goes a long way to demonstrating that.
I agree, I don't think their title was particularly descriptive. However, I generally prefer to submit the title of a blog post or news item as it was written by the author.
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c) this would take a developer like 2 hrs to build... NEXT!
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The great majority of that page is unused whitespace, and then the article itself is written in text so tiny that it's almost illegible. If I were a decade older, you could remove the word "almost" from that statement. If you're involved in web design in any way, I beg you: have mercy on the eyes of your readers, and use big enough text to be readable.

I know this is off-topic, but there's a certain threshold where poor typography overwhelms the content itself, and for me this crosses it. Which is a shame, since scientific journal reform is kind of important.
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I'm not sure that 'universal' healthcare is the solution either. I enjoy the luxury (in Canada) of not having to worry about finances when going into an emergency room, clinic, MRI centre, etc but the taxes are a killer.

I recall a few years ago when my mother (US citizen) required knee replacement surgery; same itemized nightmare others have detailed.

Given both options, I'll live with them robbing me bi-weekly.
There was one other programmer who worked with Carmack on Quake 3, John Cash.

My point is, even having one Carmack level developer on a team is a bridge to far for most.

Yes, you can write huge projects using just C, but you honestly don't think most people would recommend it unless every little drop of performance was really that important or you had no other choice or you had a super guru with an amazing track record writing the software.

At the time Q3 was written (13 years ago), console games were still being written in assembly language.
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I don't really see how this product makes any sense for the scenarios you're describing. This system still needs to be able to hit the Internet at reasonable speed, or else you get no offsite backup. It just becomes a network-attached hard drive, and if that's what you want, you can buy one at a better price with more storage (and it won't waste your bandwidth trying to be a "cloud" for your data or anyone else's data).
If you're curious about the setup he uses there's more here.
http://stephen.wolfram.usesthis.com/
It's a pirate certificate, though, not a ninja certificate...
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"have a sign stating all the services are independently operated and you'll receive these separate bills"

Those independently billed services must provide the services without regard to whether they will be able to collect. There is no credit checking (obviously).

I did some foresenic consulting for someone in a divorce. The physician had a large amount of a/r that had to be valued. Based on my memory they were easily writing off 25 to 35% of the charges they were billing for services. And this was in an affluent area. The non-paid for charges came from both individuals as well as insurance companies that didn't pay for various reasons. The physicians (a group) simply didn't have the time to pursue the charges. In some cases they would sell off the receivables in other cases they were just written off.

In a traditional business having a credit loss like that (spread among many accounts not one account going bust) would be unthinkable year after year.
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I prefer "short but to the point". This is instinctively what I threw in iPython before looking past first snippet:

print reduce(lambda x, y: x*y, xrange(2, 6+1))

As a newish Python guy (5 months), I'm interested as to why the preferable solution seems to be to import operator and use the multiplication function? (I'm purposely ignoring the more preferable call to the C library)