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Python in the browser would ultimately lead to all the same problems as Javascript in the browser. In a few years, we'll be hearing: Clojure in the browser, Scala in the browser, Haskell in the browser.

Did you miss this bit of the article: "Web browsers can be viewed as a zero install interface, a virtual machine for these applications. Such a VM has no reason to be language dependent."

I don't think the article is really about Python, just thats used as an example because that's the language the author uses. I think its really about wanting a VM in the browser that any language can compile to (without having to compile to a high level language like javascript).
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A minor rant:

Maybe instead of building some bizarre slideshow thing and including an absolutely ridiculous link-baity title like "goodbye to localhost?"[1], you write up a simple explanation of the point you're trying to get across.

[1]: For crying out fraking loud. Get rid of localhost? Do you have even the most basic understanding of how modern computers function? Yes. Of course. Get rid of localhost. Go ahead and do that and then see if your X server, or just about every other daemon on your machine, keeps running.

edit: I kindof got this slideshow to work (although it feels like it wants to crash my browser. I guess it makes sense that I should have to upgrade my video card to view some pictures over the internet. That is a really advanced function.), and...is this just some web based VIM?

"Take some thing that has existed for 30 years and...uh...the cloud!".

Please.

The guy in the pictures sure is attractive, though. He looks very serious, coding is very serious. Seriously.
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Gathering lead information for personal contact for sales of certain products or services is just part of sales. Period.

Those in IT and development are often less social, which is the reason we tend to like things we don't have to talk with.

Therefore, those in IT and development tend to reject these established methods of sales.

We can argue up and down about whether or not sales could be done better with fewer calls, lunches, and other things of disdain to the less social. In some cases, the OP is correct. But overall, I think this is one of those points that is not worth arguing about. Just look at the numbers. If you can prove by the numbers that you sell more without gathering leads and having sales call potential customers, then do that. Otherwise, stop complaining.
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If you are planning on poking around with captures in Wireshark, keep in mind that there have been quite a lot of exploits for that app, particularly in the various protocol dissectors.

You should avoid working on captures with unknown content on an important machine.

http://wiki.wireshark.org/Security
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They did in the 1920's the first ever car bomb (a horse drawn cart) was used against the NY stock exchange. I belive you can still see the shrapnel scars on the buildings facade.
That makes me curious - what is the maximum number of modifiers I can apply to one drink to arrive to a second drink on the same menu?

Bonus points if it's cheaper.
"I understand macros to provide two things (1) forced code in-lining and (2) a kind of non-strict semantics or lazy evaluation of arguments"

False. There isn't much else to say, but if this is all he thinks macros are about, he doesn't know anything about them, their uses, or their potentials.

Macros would basically take a large amount of nasty extra-lingual stuff (code-generation, byte-code generation, compiler plugins) and codify it into a systematic, easier to use and easier to understand framework.

F#-style Type Providers? Compile-time typechecked regex literals? Compile-time typechecked html? Compile-time typechecked CSS? This sort of thing is already being done (see Play!) and is pure awesome as a user (i <3 the type-checked HTML templates) but the implementation involves a huge amount of mysterious extra compilation steps and magic that macros could help simplify and codify.
Social Travel: InBed.me, An Airbnb For Hostels, Picks Up A $1.2M Seed Round
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Hehe, I can empathize with you. And Yep Failure is very much an option - most of the time it is the startup that fails, not the founder, not the team. But yet, more than anymore its those two sets of people who take it the hardest. That was the context.

My mentor used to remind me often that we are the final product, and that "phase" when we are building a startup is all towards enabling the product (aka us) to grow a skillset - or a new feature, if you'd call it that.

I worry when entrepreneurs and visionaries anticipate and call for a world that would embrace failure. I have no idea what that means, but failure - on a personal level - to accomplish that set task in a phase in a life, still would hurt, if not anything, just for the mere sake of the confidence and drive we put into it.

But every entrepreneur worth his or her salt will survive it.
oh my god, they're doing these in real-time, and they're server is suffering under the load too.
My (to be) wife and I quit a horrible start-up and took a summer off to play Diablo II.

Well, we did other things. Like rollerblade, take some trips and plan a wedding. But . . .

May 16 I will be sick. I'll pre-schedule the carpal tunnel surgery for mid June . . . :/
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Can you elaborate on the level and detail of planning you had to do to be effective in 1-2 hour chunks?

I think it would be really interesting for the productivity obsessed to maybe even see a mockup of the task lists you would generate to get a sense of how detailed of a list was good.
Did anyone see how many WAN antennas it has?
My bet is that self-server option has a higher per-transation yield, but the over-the-phone option has a higher closing rate.

In fact, I worked with a company that had both options implemented, and pretty much all inbound sales calls resulted in sales. If people are calling, then they are usually ready to buy - from you or from someone else. A good sales person will make sure it's you.
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>Could you define what you mean by "overpaid"?

I already did. We can now prove that revenue has actually decreased per dollar paid to a CEO. One might say that that that is because salaries have gone up, but for everyone else wages have stayed mostly flat. So by what possible logic would CEOs now make more money for accomplishing less? And why wouldn't these same factors apply to anyone else?

>This claim betrays a misunderstanding of how productivity is measured

I understand the theories of how it's supposed to work just fine, thank you. In theory, if I can accomplish more than those before me I should make more because I'm creating more value. In my career I've made an uncountable number of jobs unnecessary through automation. But did I capture any of this productivity boost? No, the executives took it all.

The system is broken because CEOs have been gaming it ever since this idiotic "Shareholder value" focus came about. Everyone has known this deep down for years and now we're finally starting to prove it concretely. To me it's going to be funny watching so-called "experts" explain why they spent decades preaching nonsense about CEO pay being correct as it's systematically shown to be a product of system exploitation.
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OR, documentation is a 'feature' you need to pay (double) for (true story)
Mars, sounds great! I am still amazed that the Rovers are still operational.
> Want a preview? Press ↑ key to activate

Pressed it and nothing happened.
A refreshing and needed addition to hostel booking in travel. Excited to see what this company will bring to the industry and to travelers globally.
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If google is serious with Dart, I'd hope they would release some library/tool that bridged python to chrome and supported the dart dom libraries.

I would think that would help make it popular which would help compel other browsers to support such technology.
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Agreed, cool feature but they should have also integrated scrolling to advance as well.
> I'm curious, can PyPy JIT-compile Python bytecode by itself, or does it require the source to be in Python?

Considering you can run bytecode-only Python, it would be weird if Pypy's JIT only worked from source.

Beyond that, they're apparently implementing Clojure on top of (in) Python, so they won't get the JIT for free (the interpreter code will be JITed, but the Clojure code won't be unless their runtime compiles to Python bytecode which does not seem to be the case). They'd get it for free if they implemented a Clojure in RPython as well, but would leave the Python ecosystem behind.
As a Python programmer, I agree with most of your assessment. Most Pythonistas I know have chosen Haskell as their primary functional language (and Haskell is the PL I'm constantly working on mastering).

But this clojure-py project is very interesting to me. I've heard so many positive things about Clojure and Lisp in general. I've been wanting to explore Clojure, but I've been holding off because I knew I would need to become more familiar with the Java infrastructure to learn Clojure well, and learning the JVM is one challenge I just don't feel like tackling at this point in my life.

On the other hand, I love PyPy, and I've been fascinated by the progress in performance the PyPy team has been making. I'm even hoping to eventually implement a version of CoffeeScript on PyPy. Given my Python background and interest in PyPy, Clojure now seems much more approachable thanks to this implementation. I'll probably wait until it's a little more mature, but I look forward to trying clojure-py out!
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On the Apple developer web site you can watch the WWDC videos, there is one on graphics and animation that talks about just that.

Conventional wisdom, especially for small images, it is much more efficient to draw them with Core Graphics than use a image, more so if there is transparency in the image.

This will even be true for non-ios systems. Microsoft has said for years, that generating a 16x16 image is faster than getting it from disk (depending on complexity and disk speeds).

Plus, code does tend to be more compact (again, within reason), so it is less that has to be loaded when your application starts.
What about localization? That combined with what others have mentioned below adds up to a lot of imagery.

There's also no reason you can't build your images the first time they're used, and save them out to PNG files for successive uses (if profiling determines that it is indeed more optimal). Even if you end up using graphics at runtime, you'll save work by using code to generate your graphics.

For instance, simply write utility programs to generate all of your graphics with code -- this is definitely faster than photoshop when you have buttons in lots of different languages. It's also useful if you want to use a font where it's not legal to embed it. (You can generate all of your button imagery using code and localization files, then remove the embedded fonts and use the generated PNG files in the release version.)
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I think this will depend on what role you play. As someone who's technical, 3-4 hours is the minimum for sure but if you're responsible for business relationships (like making sure you try to sign an artist every day) then 1-2 hours sounds possible.

Reminds me of a saying from my former CEO, "it's not about the time left in the game, but the number of swings at the bat you get."
The look <who's going to be there> feature is very helpful to decide where to stay ! So simple and clever !
Only if looking in the mirror does the same, I suppose :)
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The Mac support has always been great for Blizzard games and D3 is no exception. I've been playing the beta in a 2009 MBP for a couple of weeks now and everything looks pretty smooth.

Unlike companies like EA, Blizzard spends real time making sure their Mac offerings are as good as the Windows ones and that is enough for myself to be a supporter.
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I didn't even see the tiny up arrow. I tried scrolling with the mouse wheel and it didn't work, so my immediate reaction is "oh, goody another mystery meat web 2.0 navigation paradigm".

Not a good start to show me your great product when you hide it below the fold and make it difficult to navigate.
Wages are related to creation of value, which itself is related to productivity. By what logic would productivity go through the roof but CEOs realize the gains of it?

You can try to claim that's simply the market value of getting a CEO, but this doesn't hold up: CEO salary-to-revenue has decreased. We're paying more and getting worse performance. Further, your argument depends on efficient markets which don't pass the common sense test and has been shown to be an N!=NP problem.
Based on the title of your post I was assuming to read something like '..and I picked up Ruby on Rails, a few tutorials, and just started coding..'

How much technical knowledge did you have before starting this project? And how much did you learn in the process? Doesn't it feel awkward to say you have 'built' it?
I love Daniel's site - he's written a ton of great tutorials and overviews of useful tools.

tcpdump is definitely one of the "must know" tools.
You could just toss out a few options for various scenarios for a ballpark idea, and then ask for details to refine.

as another poster said, when you're just starting to compile a list of options, high pressure sales pitches are a turn off.
This reminds me of the robocall political scandal in Canada which was fuelled by CRM data. It's just as frustrating when political parties do it, especially in the robocall case which was an absolute abuse of the system.

I worry sometimes about the implications this has on democracy, where power might be defined as how strong and agile your CRM system is, rather than your actual ideas and character.
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The above steps aren't optimal.

The makefile in the nginx source shows you how to do a hitless upgrade. This is what I do from the shell after correctly installing, essentially translated from the makefile.

kill -USR2 `cat /var/run/nginx.pid` && sleep 1 && test -f /var/run/nginx.pid.oldbin && kill -QUIT `cat /var/run/nginx.pid.oldbin` && echo restart successful

Obviously, modify paths to the pid files as appropriate.
This is pretty funny; there's been some talk on twitter this week that we might have spotted _why @ PyCon 2012 [1].

[1] - http://cl.ly/1O141o140c3T1E2G0w2U
I can't figure out why you people are using URL shorteners on HN, but I believe it is not looked upon well. So, for others, these links are as follows:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/17/cedexis_and_the_open...

http://translate.google.fr/translate?hl=fr&sl=fr&tl=...
Where do you live that car prices are not clearly displayed on the windows? You just walk through the lot, brushing off the salesmen, and note down the prices listed in the window. That's what they want you to pay, and if you're a fool that's what you'll pay. If you're smart, you'll go through a little of the song-and-dance that knocks a significant amount of that price off. Unfortunately for spergy Internet people, that's how buying cars works; I don't much like it either, but if car dealers worked like Amazon, you'd see a Honda listed at $20,000 and that's what you'll pay, like it or not. This way you do get the option to bring it lower, sometimes all the way down to invoice price, because as another poster points out, car dealers don't necessarily make their money that way.
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The concept of inBed.me is really powerfull. When you stay at a hostel the experience of meeting new people is of great value and that is what InBed.me is bringing to the travel scene
I agree. And I also think we should leave him alone. It is natural to just want to know where someone is. But he intentionally left the scene, and the right thing to do is to respect that.

btw, this is a good read:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/05/15/why-a-tale-of-a-p...
How? By throwing anyone who refuses to "volunteer" on a live grenade?
I am convinced that Mars colonization should be seriously considered as a part of space exploration policy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_to_Stay
Am I the only one to think that posts about _why is like writing a love letter to the girlfriend who dumped you 3 years ago!?

It's a shame that he disappeared but that was 3 years ago. There are MANY an amazing talent in the industry.
I don't know if it saddened me, but I found it quite unnecessary. This[1] was interesting however: why there is no Nobel Prize in Computing.

[1] http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/060611-nobel-prize-com...
Not all employers care about all IP ownership. They just want stuff done on their time and stuff relevant to their business to be theirs.

I also built a project that became a startup while I was at a wallst bank. Although it didn't become a company till after I left.
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since he was the technical guy, can you talk about what your role was as the founder? did you pick up any technical stuff to help build the product (technically)? if not, what were your main contributions aside from the idea (i assume coming up with what features the site should have, etc...)?
Sorry too - I should have added a sarcasm tag (or, more appropriately, a sarchasm tag).

I've been doing PHP for 16 years (among other things), and have grown tired of the "scripting vs whatever" debates/comments/remarks/jibes/etc over the years. That didn't come across enough in my original post - sorry. :/
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> what is the "holistic" treatment for HIV?

There are, unfortunately, people who believe in treating HIV / AIDS with nutrition or folk remedies. A bit of debunking before they arrive.

African Potato hinders AIDS treatment

(http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38168)

Ugandan Health Minister claims to know 3 people cured of HIV through prayer. (1.2m people living with HIV, 150,000 children; this is especially troubling because Uganda is often cited as good example)

(http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=93411)

South Africa's health minister delayed ARVs for years; President doubts links between HIV and AIDS; 330,000 people die as a direct result. Even after ARVs introduced minister claims olive oil, beetroot and garlic are effective.

(http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=87470)

South Africans, with the worlds highest HIV caseload, trust traditional medicine because it's wisdom passed on.

(http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=73872)

South African Deputy Health Minister sacked after rolling out widely welcomed plan

(http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=73679)

Swaziland government fails to tender properly; a shortage of drugs is covered up by that government promoting folk remedies. (33% of the sexually active adult population were HIV+; about 66% of the population lived on less than $2 per day)

(http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=62579)

Dr Matthius Rath is evil.

(http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38577)

Just in case you think all those links are old, it still happens. Here's a link about people selling 37ml of Ubhejane for $210. (About 80% of the Ugandan population earn less than $1 per day.)

(http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=94679)

It's not all bad news, all that death was useful for some businesses.

(http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=62655)

(http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=62604)

(http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38262)
Sure, I've written tools to do this before - for localisation, nonetheless.
my impression right of the bat with "Let's see now" and onward was that you were being harshly critical.

I was being harshly critical of calling the man at work and naming him. I also wrote:

The article spends pages talking about _why and the author’s relationship with _why’s work. Great. It spends a page talking about _why’s desire for anonymity and reclusive nature. Good. It talks about _why’s “infosuicide” and notes that it happened shortly after he was “outed.” Fine.

I mentioned the things I liked and said so. What you don’t seem to like is the lack of “balance,” as if given that I spent a few paragraphs talking about the stuff I didn’t like, I should spend ten or twenty paragraphs about the stuff I liked. But my feelings about the things that I liked were just that I liked them. You have stronger feelings about the things that you liked, so you write your comment in accordance with your feelings.

I am not writing a book review for the NYT, and neither are you, that’s the beauty of the forum. I am obliged to be polite, to avoid name calling and other poisonous behaviour, but I am also obliged to—as the saying goes—sit down at the keyboard and open a vein.
I remember Internet Explorer used to support VBScript. Is that still supported in IE? It's been so long since I've used IE!
Interesting idea, but it seems to assume that a cross-platform strategy is free. In reality, it's likely to consume a non-negligible amount of time. If you can avoid that, then I'm sure it's a big gain, but if it delays your initial release substantially, I'd wager that's at least as likely to harm your potential "virality" as releasing earlier but on a single platform.
Good point, I admit this post was more of a flow of thoughts rather than a carefully crafted post. But guess what? I was prepping another post & it suffered from the same symptoms, will rewrite it a bit. thx