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I think you're being a little too harsh. This story isn't for programmers. It's for everyone else that thinks the computer is a magic box.

For us, it gives us a story about someone who is trying to learn how to program and about programming culture. I think the author did a pretty good job of taking a month and exploring both the nuts an bolts of programming and the people behind it. Sure, she still couldn't do much at the end of the month, but at least she understood the process to some degree.

The sub-plot about _why is an interesting one. For those of us around during that time, it brings back memories of those frantic days. For the outside world, it is just an interesting story. The naming of _why at the end wasn't really necessary, but it didn't feel too out of place either. It's been long enough that it was conceivable that he may want to have some comment. She may have gone further than I would have to get a message to him, but she didn't cross the line. And it was clear from the article that he has a sufficient barrier around him to protect him from the public.

You're taking the throw-away line about showing up at his house too seriously. She's a journalist... that's what they do - try to get the story. Happily she decided that she didn't need to resort to that to finish the story. I think the line was just added to give a sense of just how deeply he had disappeared.

In our community, we respect _why's wishes and leave him alone. It isn't polite to discuss his private identity. But to the rest of the world, this just isn't a big deal. And I hardly think that he will now be bombarded by publicity. The people who cared about _why know better.
He's out there somewhere making an AMAZING coding tutorial starring two really cool-looking shoes who hang out with each other and crack hilarious jokes.
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Using DDG, quite often I don't even have to click any search results to find what I was looking for (usually a quick documentation snippet).

I feel that in old times I had that with google too, nowadays I often have to scroll around and even go to next pages looking for it.
Thank you, $39.99 for the paper on the link seemed steep. If it went to the authors I would have no problem paying for it but as we all know - it's not.
A few phone calls do not a paparazzo make. _why, with virtually no effort, maintained his privacy.

The upvotes demonstrate that people are interested in the person, and it's a journalist's job to probe. Sometimes more so than other people would be comfortable with. While that can be awkward, I think it's a good thing, although in this case it doesn't matter so much.
I'd like to single out this line from the linked article:

"Unlike Java, type signatures in Scala don’t really explain idiomatic usage to mortals very well."

This is a great diagnosis of one of the big issues with Scala's style of static typing. Everyone knows that the type descriptions take a bit to grok compared to a C-style languages. Why? Well, in C-style languages, a function definition is itself a representation of idiomatic usage. In Scala and its brethren, you have to translate from one to the other.

I'm sure that's a commonplace observation, but it had not jumped out at me like that before.
Some systems are inherently complex, it's stupid to pretend otherwise.

It's like someone saying "Why do I have to learn to program, all I want to do is make an app for my phone".
I laughed when I read this: "The government can't just take property from someone, and if they do, they have to pay for it," said Dowell. "Just because an entity is funded with taxpayer dollars doesn't give them the right to steal property."

It all sounds so nice, unfortunately they fail to mention who sets the price -- which is: the government. In many cases, if you look how they treated people in Texas while building the Mexico-Canada corridor, they were offered prices that anyone in sound mind would straightforwardly call "stealing".
I opened my comment by praising the exact same things you’re praising, so let’s be sure that we both understand I was criticizing just one or two small things that I care deeply about.
You're treating your customers with enormous disrespect. If your chosen example is really Sun Access Manager, why don't you expect the developers using it to understand how it works? You're assuming we're morons. Absolute drooling morons, judging from the documentation I can find for Access Manager, which shows a product that is orders of magnitude simpler than a few others I've dealt with, and I'm having no trouble understanding how it works.
Sounds like the Volunteer's Dilemma is the scenario that played out in the movie The Dark Knight, actually.
Fyi, this is just a link to the D3 main page on github, not some new d3-related project.
I disagree. With software that works on top of client data the more hands on you are the better. Each client had "irregularities" in their data that have to be ironed out. With good access (and good communication) you can hopefully take care of "irregularities" before the client even knows they are there.
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Thanks for the heads up!

Note to self: highlight scroll path to alleviate user feeling of nausea.. :)
Max de Marzi created some beautiful visualizations using d3.js for the Neo4j Heroku Challenge (http://blog.neo4j.org/2012/03/heroku-challengers-vote-now.ht...).
> Those of us who sit back and claim enlightenment by
> denouncing such hours are only going to end up being
> passed by.

There is huge huge huge difference between working smarter and just sitting back.
So far as I know, no one has ever breached the dense, hard layer at the bottom of the earth's "crust", just above the mantle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohorovi%C4%8Di%C4%87_disconti...
> They've devoted their careers

Since payroll is not some hip, new, web 2.0 kind of thing, it's always possible that they do it way "'cause that's the way we've always done it", too.
I enjoyed this article to be honest, I haven't written any Ruby in a while but it was nice to get a history of the language interspersed with the enigma that is _why.

Could have done without the "journalist trying to learn to program" bits though
You could just create you assets in Illustrator/Vector and you would be set for any future resolution increases. However the PNGs would still increase your bundle size.

What I'm curious about, maybe someone here has the answer is if there would be a significant performance gain from using Core Graphics over just loading a PNG?
+1. Thanks. Didnt see it this way.
For me, having headphones on to "read" my mail in private isnt ideal. I also like listening to music while i work, video would be annoying.
How do you get there?
Obviously this algorithm has lots of false positives.
Wouldn't that also delete the from my IMAP server (in my case, Gmail)? I'd also be worried about deleting the messages from my [All Mail] folder, which is what I have a real issue with (my inbox is rarely very large).
My guess is that it's sluggish because it uses HTML/Webview for the UI (according to the article at least). I am yet to find any app that feels like a native app which uses any of the javascript/HTML5 platforms.
Good to see d3.js on the Hacker News first page, I have recently been looking at this, just because it looks so cool.

One of the triggers for me investigating this library, is that I have been looking at some ideas for creating nice visualizations of the world bank data, http://data.worldbank.org/developers/ , mainly for personal interest and learning.

Alot of stuff to get the old noggin' around, but ya gotta start somewhere.
He was at one point a very public figure - at least in this community. Just because the persona was his public face doesn't mean that the "person" was completely private. Attempting to reach out of a formerly public figure for a comment (or even a heads-up) is entirely acceptable. It is obviously something that he has taken steps to deal with.

What if _why had some comment about his info-suicide or the concept in general? What if he had replied back "good luck with your story - just don't use my real name"?
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Also I use the contact process to determine whether or not someone needs training. I have spent enough time fixing folks broken setups regarding accounting software to know that you want to have a good idea of what someone needs to know and work that into the project price as well :-P
The demo needs a background with a clearer pattern so you can see the path actually being followed. With just text and the dark background it just seems like a slideshow with transitions.
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Because email has completely different dynamics from real-time conversations. If you need to ask lots of short questions (varying based upon previous answers) than email is a terrible way to do it.

It's also much easier to figure out misunderstanding on the phone due to the more informal nature of phone calls rather than emails.
I'm personally sympathetic with your comments on his politics, but the only part of your comment that is relevant here is "He is an awesome scientist and has made real contributions to the field computer science."

According to Wikipedia he is the father of Daniel Pearl, the journalist who was murdered by al-Qaeda. This may colour his views on things.
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And where the fuck is Mark Pilgrim?
The self thing is one of my favourite feature in python, it is then shoo easy to refactor a method in a function, it makes very clear where things come from, etc.
Michal Zalewski already explained in detail why this is a horribly broken methodology:
http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2010/05/vulnerability-databases-...
So its the extra level on engagement it needs, which is a challenge? Even if the video mail is from family or friends (aka people we care about)?
I don't have a source on me (Work blocks sites that I could link to) but they have confirmed that there is a console port coming. I believe they have a small dedicated team to the port.
Fair enough, that doesn't sound like an addiction at all. If you're just taking it to improve concentration, you might have luck with a combination of a Vitamin B complex, Piracetam and L-Tyrosine. All are cheap and have no side effects.
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Again, I disagree.

I don't think you're a moron. But the developers generally aren't the same people that pay for the software, especially not in the size of the organizations we're selling to. If you're a 10, 20, 250 person company, you're probably not buying our product. If you're a 30,000 person company, you're in our market.

If you're in a 30,000 person company, I almost guarantee that the 'developer' implementing the product isn't the same person as the guy writing us our check. I'm willing to bet there are at least two layers in the org chart between those people, if not more.

In the size of these organizations, there are enterprise architecture counsels, change control boards, executive steering committees. We need to document to those individuals how we're going to help them further their missions and operating objectives for the years to come. We're going to show how our products can be leveraged to maximize the efforts they're already undertaking.

The change control boards are going to want to see white papers that document what effect our application is going to have on the existing environment. They're going to want to know exactly what ports and protocols need to be exposed for things to work. They're going to need to know what kind of load balancing techniques will work best for our product. They're going to need to know how much storage allocation to expect at years 1, 2 and 5.

These aren't things we expect anyone to know, and they change from version to version. These are the things that we know, and not even necessarily one guy in our group knows them, we need a few people in our team to explain these questions and more.
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I would say that 'colony' would also be euphemistic in this case, but it is hard to be literally descriptive about a cynical attempt to control territory under the guise of externally instituting a democracy (how do you externally institute a democracy anyway?), without offending someone.

'The Great Game' would probably be the classic euphemism for the ongoing Afghani affair, since that is what it has been called since the days of Rudyard Kipling.
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> Mythical Man Month is nearing on 40 years old, and apparently the current crop of tech leaders haven't bothered to read it.

+100. That and Peopleware.
That was my first thought too:

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While I would normally agree with you, Blizzard games have always had polish. They do continue to balance the game for years afterwards but you rarely find bugs that would make you say it wasn't ready for prime time.
I think he's ramblin' off on a joke regarding how reddit.com/r/diablo took every single ounce of change in regards to Diablo as a "sign of the beta" or more recently "sign of release date".

If twitter of any blizz guy was updated? SIgn of the beta. New picture on the website? Sign of the beta. A sneeze came from 4th floor blizzard HQ? Sign of the beta.
"it's really not something governments are going to be overly happy with garage hackers doing"

Fusion reactions aren't that difficult to create: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor

Of course controlled fusion reactions that generate more energy than you put in are slightly more difficult.
That's also a good time to determine customer fitness as well.

The better at enterprise sales you get, the more quickly you can determine who is going to drag their feet, who's going to give you a bunch of money and then be a pain in the ass, and who's just going to draw out the sales process to infinity while making sure to call you every day so that they can get their money's worth.
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As far as I'm concerned they're the best dealers for players too - I don't try and count cards in the casino, and find that both winning and losing sessions are much more enjoyable with a friendly dealer.
I think we agree about most things here... in my initial reading of your comment it seemed to paint the entire article negatively. You just criticized one particular aspect... a lot and perhaps that how I got that initial impression.

I wanted to express that talking about _why's identity wasn't the central part of the story. Anyone just reading your comment might get that impression.

I really just don't think the naming of names at this point is that big of a deal. Anyone who really wanted to know his name could have found him. Anyone who was in the public eye and who has decided to leave it has had to deal with the same issues. And while we don't discuss his name, out of courtesy and respect, I don't think she crossed the line.
Just used the code : 93KPXHJ6H7HA

Will give my thoughts in another comment.
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Please don't slander the people who brought us the Internet by painting them as software patent advocates.

http://www.ifso.ie/documents/promotion/other-voices.pdf

Vint Cerf: "The openness of those protocols and their availability was key to their adoption and widespread use. I think if Bob [Kahn] and I had not done that - if we had tried to, in some way, constrain and restrict access to those protocols, some other protocol suite would probably be
the one we'd be using today .... The fact that it wasn't
patented, I think, was very important."

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that may involve the technology."
I used to feel the same way, until I got a job as an IT manager at a company, and a big budget. I still like prices posted on web sites, but I won't buy something without talking to a sales-person.

My job depends on making the right technology decisions. I'm not just going to buy based on the price list, I'm going to buy a custom tailored product with the right price for me. And I need to talk to a sales person, and I want them to be good at selling and I want them to convince me. If a company can't be bothered to hire good sales people then they probably can't be bothered to hire good support people, or programmers either.

Enterprise is different.
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Anyone know if that dataset is publicly available?
Exactly, if this suing cities idea expands there may be increased pressure to the Feds from the local level to do something about it.
Could it be, that you're looking for this thread? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3707338
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Serious question here: Where do you draw the line? What makes someone a “public figure?"

Does publishing open source make you a public figure?
How about speaking at a conference?
Playing in a band under a pseudonym?
Playing in a band under your real name?
Commenting under a pseudonym on Hacker News?
How about commenting under an identifiable handle like rbraithwaite?

I honestly don’t have a pat answer to this question.
You're right and you're wrong.

Blizzard DOES use the beta for hype. With SC2 they gave beta keys to preorders to help generate revenue and interest prior to launch. Not a lot of participants actually know the reason for a beta and actually use it as an excuse to play the game early but Blizzard already knows this.

Blizzard's job of releasing a public/invite beta is to test:

A) How the game functions on the boat-load of machine configurations available. When you sign up for beta invite on battle.net you need to create a "profile" of yourself by uploading your PC specs. Blizzard has always provided games that can run on a low end machine with features and graphical tweaks that still allow it to look good on a new machine. For me SC2 had to run on low/medium on my 2 year old laptop but with my new PC it runs on Ultra with great effects!

B) Network stability. B.net2.0 is rather new and they need to test the matching functionality as well as load test the servers for every reason under the sun. Having willing participants allows them to hit all these goals while still generating the hype.
This highlights one of the main problems with selling dev tools on the App store - it looks amazing but there's no way I'm shelling out $80 without trying it first.
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Yes, Dropbox is profitable. I believe their numbers are particularly high for a freemium model, more than 2%.

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I think future materials might make better detectors. Or perhaps a way to increase sensitivity?
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> The price is not set by some magic formula. It is set directly by how much the customer is willing to spend.

You missed half of the formula: It is set directly by how much the customer is willing to spend among the options available.

As soon as transparent pricing exists (Ceridian in OP), it will garner market share. Presumably the overhead is lower (because sales people cost money), so they are probably at an advantage.
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