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Yes , because grandma just loves it when she does a system update and her entire desktop suddenly changes to something else or it decides to replace the Java distribution from under her so half of her stuff doesn't work any more.

If you want to get and keep non technical users consistency in terms of metaphors and the software itself is #1 thing.
Yes, didn't think of this one. It looks like a great resource to get started with JavaScript. It's nice to have it also available to read on-line.
Does not work at all on Chrome on OSX. I can only scroll with the arrow keys. It also disables the back/forward gestures.
Alternative monitoring opportunity? Grep a twitter stream for "EC2" and "down" and raise an alert if you get enough hits in 5 min?
You could emulate that behavior by setting up filters in Mail.app on OS X, that would delete messages older than X days, for what it's worth.
The Prestige and Inception have been two of the most literary films of the last ten years. Christopher Nolan keeps getting better and better.

So I'd be interested to read a serious analysis of the new Batman films since it wouldn't surprise me if Nolan has something up his sleeve here at this point. That said, this post is not it, so if anyone has any recommendations please share.
I would just think this imaginary guy is an idiot. Unless he's working for himself but I don't think that's what you're talking about. You'd be pretty stupid to effectively work for free, or do you assume that this overtime gets paid? In any case, if the guy has no life and is happy to work all day that's just fine by me, I wouldn't care at all. And if he gets paid for that, that's great, he deserves it if he really works that hard and actually delivers quality results (which I doubt). You talk as if it would be a competition on who can work the most hours. I don't think it is.

Edit: If it's the money you're after I think you should try to work smarter not harder :-) i.e. if you're only way to get more money is to work more hours maybe you should find another job or change career.
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I think our servers were down for a few minutes earlier -- should work now.
These concerns are addressed in the article.

tl;dr
Working hours longer than 40 leads to counter productivity in the short and long term. 40 hour workers are more productive in all situations except those where workers have an abnormal singular focus (apparently symptoms of aspergers).
> Basic principle of ops

For my benefit, what are some others?
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Actually, Javascript was originally a target for PyPy, and there was a working implementation before it was dropped since the developers thought that PyPy was being spread too thin; at that time PyPy was already was targeting the JVM, .net, llvm, and C.

Note that there is also a working implementation of Javascript that runs on PyPy. This project was actually an implementation of Python that compiled to Javascript as a target.
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I'll definitely have to add this one to the next roundup. I wasn't aware of this one and it really looks like a valuable resource. I love sites like this that point out tips and tricks.

Lots of good stuff in there.
As I understand it, the answers are marked as public once an actual answer is reached.
In the renowned 1993 study of young violinists, performance researcher Anders Ericsson found that the best ones all practiced the same way: in the morning, in three increments of no more than 90 minutes each, with a break between each one. Ericcson found the same pattern among other musicians, athletes, chess players and writers.

For Real Productivity, Less is Truly More: http://blogs.hbr.org/schwartz/2010/05/for-real-productivity-...

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I don't expect 'managers' to understand this... Mythical Man Month is nearing on 40 years old, and apparently the current crop of tech leaders haven't bothered to read it.
There is already https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonym.OS so perhaps the names would have clashed :-)
He's talking about the next outage :)
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Since there are two 'why I left' in a row:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3702253
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3700277

I'd like to share this essay from Simon Phipps that has enlightened me from time to time on such matters.
Someone please apply to YCombinator with this idea.
A third of his time only? I guess it will be one third as good as the concurrent then?
Thanks for reaching out...Will drop you a line when I get there...HN meetup would be awesome.
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Looks like the entire US-East-1 region had connectivity issues. We're a monitoring company, we're watching this very carefully...there is a write up on our blog:

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Come on now, that's a bit harsh. There are really smart people who have been trying this exact thing for years without success. Microsoft tried harder than anyone to make "JScript" part of .NET but finally gave up and Windows 8 has 2 first-class VMs.
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Of course Python is a Real Language, it exists, etc, yes. But it's not a Real Programming Language.

You see, everyone using python, ruby, perl, php, and other similar platforms - we're not programming, we're just scripting. The difference is so extreme, that, well... if you don't understand, I'm not going to bother explaining.
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The last paragraph makes me think of http://www.thisismyjam.com/, where you get to recommend a single song for a limited time (7 days). A perfect example of a place where you think twice before you share and share strictly one item per {time_period}.
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That dashboard sucks, but Twitter being a faster, more reliable source of news is true for most things now.
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No, actually I incorrectly added 3h to 2330 and got 0330, mostly because I'm sleep deprived after this outage. Or I could pretend it was "an hour to resolve the outage, then back to the bars".
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"All workers are entitled to a legal minimum of 5.6 weeks of paid holiday."

Heh, at my current job I won't be eligible for paid holiday until eighteen months after my date of initial employment, at which point I will receive five days of paid holiday for one year, and then ten days of paid holiday for the next four years. That's a pretty stark difference, I'd say.

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This is like web 1.0 ported to 2.0
Should fit in nicely with HTML5 slides and online Powerpoint replacement - very neat, great that you added the display path feature.
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"If that doesn't seem doable you might be taking on a task that doesn't have a good set of requirements." Or it might have perfectly good requirements which are very hard to write automated tests for.

Consider (for instance) a program to translate ABC music format to proper sheet music. It's easy to say the basic requirement: "The program has to accurately translate ABC format to legible and easy to read sheet music." But even a start at automating a test for that would require converting a graphical representation of sheet music back to the basic notes, and that problem is at least an order of magnitude harder than writing the original program, without factoring in the "easy to read" bit at all. (PS This is a real issue for me, if someone knows of a decent open source sheet music to MIDI/ABC convertor I'd love to hear about it.)
People in Italy drive Camaros? God, I can think of a couple dozen cars I would rather drive in Italy than an American muscle car. Hell, any Alfa Romeo will likely be classier and of a better build quality.
I hope this idea is not patented, because I am developing a similar app.
The largest issue i see for this is RDS. If you use RDS...i dont know, but migrating away is not going to be easy.

Migrating the servers themselves however shouldnt be too hard if you have a fairly sane build process, however if you dont, and i suspect a lot of people dont...its not going to be fun.
You may want to try bottom up coding. The idea is to build things that would make solving the problem space easier and stacking them.
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Ideas can't be patented.
Should we rewrite the autism rule book?
Now suddenly you will find yourself in a corner as he will grow(in comparison) inevitably

I completely fail to see the inevitability. People don't fall into a coma the minute they leave the office. If he's grinding away 5-6 hours extra hours alone in the office every day, while you're spending those 5-6 hours meeting new people, hanging out with friends and colleagues, learning new things and playing around with fun hobbies and projects, why should he grow more than you.

It's just as likely that two-three years down the road he'll be completely burnt out with a stagnant skill-set while you have a great network, varied skill-set, plenty of energy and are ready and able to use those to move onto bigger and better things.
Whoah. Didn't realize private prisons existed. Forgot anything can be capitalized
I share same thoughts as you have. The world would not have been same without Stallman.
What else do you think macros provide?

As a former professional Common Lisp dev, those two features strike me as the real difference between a macro and function call.
Works great with Chrome 17 on Snow Leopard using my magic mouse, pc mouse with scroll wheel, magic track pad, and keyboard arrows.

The 2 fingered back/forward gestures are instead used for horizontal scrolling (right or down progress further down the page, left or up move back up the page)
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Someone has already achieved Clojure. https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript
http://jsonlint.com also does a great job of not only pretty-printing (valid) JSON, but also checking it for any errors.
Sorry, Poe's law kicked-in and I mistakingly downvoted you. I'm very sorry:|
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Definitely a valid opinion, but the way I see it when you use Arch you inherently don the hat of one of those 'bleeding edge distro people,' and it's up to you to keep everything working. It's simply the price I pay to have the most up-to-date software and some of the best performance I've ever seen.

More hegemonic distro's like Debian trade some of that speed and freshness for a more hands-off experience. Nothing wrong with either!
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You can also be the 988th kind person to tweet this.

The use of the Tweet count to create the custom "tweet this" message is pretty cool.
Could you give a little more detail on your setup? I'm curious how others are designing around these issues.
Overtime and burnout were covered in Peopleware back in 1987. Looks like we're doomed to relearn our lessons again and again...
For some time now I've been wondering why the primary scripting format consumed by browsers is JavaScript (a language intended for humans) and not some sort of standard bytecode that would be executed in a browser's virtual machine.

Because that's how it was initially. And initially - before github and minifiers - that was very important as a way of helping people learn by being able to study the code of other websites.
On one hand I definitely agree that transparent pricing gets more customers, if your product isn't made for an enterprise level there is no excuse not to make the prices transparent.

With that being said, many software and web applications that use the "contact us for a price method" that aren't just vultures looking for your info usually need more information in order to price you properly. For example, the size of the company, your budget, your specific needs etc. may be needed to ensure that the company gets a fair specific price that caters to their needs.
So? Most of the comments I have read don't dispute the fact that he (may) have committed crimes against UK and/or US laws.

The problem is that the UK allows extradition of its own citizens.

Of course this is a more general problem than just "copyright" and involves the fact that the UK let itself become some kind of colony of the US (ironically).

If an American college student displayed a banner on his website saying "Fuck Iran" (and you don't have to look too far to find such things: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MiedE1CY9I) would you consider it ok to send him to Iran to be tried there?

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Additionally, according to the ruling, he did not exactly provide a "cute 'Fuck the Police' banner"; it was a quote from someone else's work:

> Also posted on the homepage of this new website was the photograph of a rap music group and the title OF ONE OF THEIR SONGS “Fxck the Police” (capitalization mine).

And this is not even what the ruling says; the ruling is quoting the complaint produced by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.

What you have listed in the parent is NOT what the defendant did; they're just allegations from the prosecution, produced in order to obtain his extradition.
Scala already has @inline and call-by-name, so it doesn't need macros for either purpose.

Macros in Scala are primarily of interest for metaprogramming; it's a fairly natural direction for Scala to take, given that Scala has always positioned itself as a language that supports internal DSLs.
That was my first thought too. I wonder how much of his time Jony Ive spent working on the first iPad.
That my plan too. By using dual clouds (again in UK and US), we're getting the highest failover protection we can afford. I can't afford our e-commerce platform to be down and the evidence shows that a single cloud is robust enough. We call it "Cloud Docking" :)
Until a few weeks ago when it shutdown, I used Scroogle to proxy my searches, and it gave great results. 50 plain links without any other distracting content. Of course, they simply queried google servers with an IE6 UA, but it still allowed for all the search operators. I had been doing that for the last 6 years, and I must say I am at loss these days. I use DDG now, and it seems adequate...
When they mean "X in the browser", it's being natively supported. Python-to-JS exists too: http://pyjs.org/
It's more that if you make use of the Amazon APIs for autoscaling other services, you can't just directly translate that to a more static managed hosting environment.

Probably the sane way is to special case some subset of your functionality so it works regardless, and then gracefully scale up/down your app (performance, scope of features, etc.) based on system health. This is a lot more complex, and really hard to retrofit.
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The language in the browser is not the problem to me. If I could use python it wouldn't change the fact that you still need to deal with the DOM, CSS and browser differences.
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This should come as no surprise as our effort at better living through chemistry is barely in its infancy. Millions of people take drugs prescribed to them by their physicians with the implicit understanding that they are safe because the USDA says they are when in fact we have precious little idea if they really are.

The potential revenue from new pharmaceuticals is huge and the pressure to get new drugs out into the market is immense. It's initially comforting to see that people are working on this problem of drug interactions since as the article mentions, we couldn't do it in the clinical trials. Still, the cynic in me thinks this is just another step in getting everyone taking more and more prescription medicines. If the pharmaceutical industry can show that two drugs have no interactive side effects, it's much easier to convince a patient to begin taking a new drug. Western medicine is already heavily dependent on fixing the symptoms instead of the cause.

It's clear that in many cases we have almost no clue why a particular drug works. It's thrilling to see risks removed from the system by finding drug interactions previously unknown. However, it's frightening how much more likely it is that physicians will rely on prescribing a pill because it's easier than convincing the patient to change.
My big question is: Is 2K by 1K5 actually an improvement over the best of the competition (1920x1200)? Obviously 1024x768 is way too low. Bumping to exactly 4 times the number of pixels made the transition seamless, but is there a significant visual difference between the 3 megapixel screen of the new iPad versus the 2 megapixel screen of the ASUS Transformer Infinity? At some point you are going to hit the limit of what the human eye can distinguish. Perhaps a different way of phrasing the question is: at what distance do you have to hold the tablet from your eyes to notice a significant difference?
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How about Germany, Norway, Sweden?
I don't know about Spain, but 40 hours week was least of Greece's problem.
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I skip by any site that does not mention a price, but the one thing they could do to get my interest is to at least mention a price range and what goes into the calculation of the lower and upper prices. Ballpark figures are nice, and some small description of the rationale helps me to make a decision, even if it is to make a call to drill down further.
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Well, there's options for many lives and styles.
With the new project I am working on we're attempting to create a content filtering algorithim that can determine the content a user likes based off of previous interactions of upvoting and hiding content from their feed. I think with enough interactions and utilizing a user grouping system, the majority of irrelevant content could be filtered. Assuming the community is large enough and provides an adequate amount of feedback.
Yes, it's called "user tests". lol

Just kidding, we have a test suite that tests the things deemed critical and some other stuff.
The "needed to ensure that the company gets a fair specific price that caters to their needs" is usually code for "please give us enough info so we can estimate how much we can price discriminate against you". It can only work against you (the buyer) versus a transparent pricing strategy. Otherwise, you know, they (the seller) would ask for all this multi-dimensional info on the pricing page, and give you an estimate there. Many service providers do this, even for complicated multi-dimensional problems, see AWS' price estimator for an example of transparent pricing with lots of inputs.
Whilst I acknowledge that prices don't always reflect the cost of production and supply (think oil), budget is rarely needed to provide you with a price. Provide a price first and I'll tell you if I can afford it or whether you'll have to do better to get my business.
There's an "English" link at the top, but it doesn't seem to work on this page. Perhaps the link should be edited to use the following:

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Yes, because I don't run away after I've paid. Essentially I'm blocked with a lock after I've paid which is

a.) released when I get my coffee

b.) released with a timeout (I don't want to wait any longer)
I do agree that we need a language with static typing so that one can have some level of confidence before releasing the code to production. Having said that python definitely is much better than javascript.
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The US has five times as many people spread out over 32 times the area. Palm Beach, Florida has an average household income of over $109,000. South Alamo, Texas is at $13,906. Climates vary from arctic to tropical, state and local taxes range from zilch to rivaling federal taxes.

Saying "one espresso" is cheaper in Italy than the US doesn't really mean anything. Prices vary, cost of doing business varies, cost of living varies.
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