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Completely agree. I once worked at a bespoke software shop where they had 'proper' developers upstairs, and support developers downstairs. (Quotes used to indicate how that made the support staff downstairs feel).

Most projects taken on by the company followed the same path: upstairs developers would code up the application as per functional spec, client would do a bit of UAT, accept it, publish it live, at which point the project was assigned to the support staff.

What generally happened next was the application would begin to fail on non-functional fronts, generally appalling performance and scalability problems.

Since there was minimal communication between floors (afterall, what could a 'proper' developer learn from a lowly support developer?), the pattern repeated again and again.

I'm sure that either rotating the positions, or having individuals responsible for staying with each application throughout its life, or some other form of mixing, would have drastically improved both morale and quality of apps produced.
I see a source link. The Verge has an interesting layout, though; IMO it would be more normal to link inline.
I liked Louis CK from before his $5 special. When he released it, I read all about what the deal was, bought it, and thought it was at least five bucks worth of funny.

I also like Aziz Ansari, so when I saw this, I skipped the reading part-- I skimmed the copy on my way through the checkout process to make sure everything was cool (it was) and paid my money.

I'll keep doing that as long as artists I like keep releasing stuff like this.
Ok, CoffeeScript would make me buy this :-)

SFTP is fine, but wouldn't this mean I need to be constantly online? Makes hacking in train harder... Though I suppose I could use this by SSHing to my chroot.
I mean, there are incentives. If a battery lasts longer, a user will spend more time in apps, which leads to more ad views.

Whether the ad companies are measuring and paying attention to this is a different matter.
I think you are assuming that the mass suicide threat was legitimate. It may have just been a smart negotiating ploy: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3448378
A followup: the disconnect is in your source's estimate of the share of income of the top 10%. He puts it at about 33%, while most of the sources I found put it at over 45% (http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2012/03/income-i..., http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/10/30/nyregion/where...). According to the source you cite, that would put the US well below the other OECD nations in terms of progressiveness, a result which is much more consistent with conservative arguments against European policies.
True, fewer and fewer documents get mailed. But I think it's still a bit early to say that we're in a post-mailed-document era. I still get documents mailed to me every day! There are still some uses of physical mail that haven't been replaced by email.
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If you are not paying for the product, you are paying in other ways

I have ad-blocking software

Excuse me while I put on my devil's advocate pants... so, you're using the apps without paying, and cheating the developer out of profit?
It's an old truth: most people choose their own facts to make themselves feel better, then hunt down the justifications they need a posteriori.

When people are worried about jobs and imagine that helping the environment would take extra effort that could be spent on the economy, they will convince themselves that the environment isn't that big of a deal. To realize that alleviating climate change would actually create new work, even new industries, takes more mental effort than the casual observer is prepared to expend.

That's normal people - the hacker set will generally seek out the unvarnished truth in more of an evidence-based way.
The meaning of the title is that Seagate is claiming that after a few years of stuttering they've jump-started exponential growth for the HD once again.

I'd say it's a big deal that Seagate claims they will develop 60TB HDs with your usual exponential growth curve (bearing in mind we're starting at 2-6TB.) "On the way" doesn't mean tomorrow.
> What happens when the boss is a Sagittarius and the team lead is a Gemini?

I don't know, will you write it?

If you missed the message on what you could do to 'meximize the output of the team', without taking a wild guess, it is there in the next-to-last paragraph.

Whether that's a novel insight or not is up to you, it is novel enough to me that I chose to write about it. I'm still trying to work around my tendency to start stuff and not finish stuff and having been tossed into the role of debugger/finisher lately has helped me to be both better at starting stuff and to get more appreciation for the people that work on later stage code.
Why? That's the cost of two lunches per month for, as far as I'm concerned, the best English-language journalism available.

For the record, I pay $16 a month.
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So what you are saying is - you write better code, reduce lines of code, don't be too clever, reduce complexity, and use well-proven libraries.
I won't thank you for suggesting GitHub, because after I've taken your suggestion, I will be less free! Gitorious is the superior solution :)
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Trolls will troll... The free version has the standard admob sized ad. Together with the softkeyboard it will leave only space for a few lines of code if you have a small screen.

However, the paid version doesn't have ads and it is primarily targeted for tablets. On the phone, I imagine it is useful to do a small edit here and there or to show code to someone.
The palatability of a statement has nothing to do with it's legality or constitutionality. Employment-related contracts have health and medical clauses in them all the time.
Nice article, but its a bit irksome that the MessageHandler example drops the conditional and doesn't replace it - the code at the end of that section isn't equivalent to what he started with.
I think you miss my overarching point, as someone who has read all of the books, I can assure you there is very little in them that states go kill in my name, the old testament being the exception but for the major two religions they where superseded by new covenants via either the Koran or the gospel. Christ talked about universal forgiveness and pacifism and Mohammad had very specific rules of engagement for self defense. If we bring in Buddhism to round it out then we find more pacifism.

I cover that background to reach the following point and that is it's not what is in the book, as many of the leaders pervert what the book says and many followers never read it for themselves, the pages could be blank and it would be the same result. it is the people involved that is the problem and given those peoples desire if they could not control others via religion then they would do it via politics or race or another means of dividing people and that is the core issue getting rid of religion will not have a net impact because the system and volume of those being controlled will just shift to other mechanisms. Dealing with the root cause is what we need to focus on and not the symptoms, religion is but a symptom as such fixing it will provide no cure.
Could someone in ad tech please explain to me: is ad software's inefficiency with power and load times a necessary evil, or is it some gross incompetence from leaders in the field?
I think it actually made http://yvettesbridalformal.com/ look better.

Hard to believe that not too long ago, frames and table-based layouts actually were improvements over the status quo.
Well, if only I could tell them that I don't give a shit about dating sites or finding! singles! in! my! area!
Starting a business is not the solution, since all of the problems you describe apply equally well to a lot of founders, and especially founders without funding for whom you can add "poor" and "lonely" to the list of adjectives you use to describe your own insane lifestyle. Would you be happy working for yourself, but stuck at home all the time?

So fix the problem... scale yourself back to eight hours a day. Make it a point to leave the office by 6:30. After a month of this shift this up to normal closing time. There is no need to ask permission: if someone asks say you have something in the evenings after work. If this is a problem waltz into a more reasonable position.

That said, one practical suggestion is that if you're changing your work hours, you need to get into the office at or before 9:00am, since it is common for managers to perceive staff as coming in late, but very rare for them to recognize the sheer amount of time put in working late. You also don't want to spend a lot of time at the office talking about your new evening activities while you're getting people conditioned to your working non-insane hours. You want the only noticeable shift in your behavior to be the fact you leave at a reasonable hour. After a month or two you won't need to worry about this, but if you give into the temptation it might be perceived as flaunting authority.
Your hours make me cringe. Is it possible for you to get to work earlier and get off earlier? I personally find myself much happier when I am arriving in the office between 7:30 - 8:30. Other than that trust me, giving up your life wouldn't help anything. People in small towns have 'loads' of stress. Those bus-drivers and photographers barely make ends-meat and they work just as many, if not more hours than you do. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence; until you realize you just stepped in a cow-pie.

You mention having a bad back; try finding a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu studio; it will definitely help your strength and is more low-impact at the beginning grappling stages (look for a smaller studio). Make sure you tell them about your back and they should help you work on it and will make sure you aren't being hurt more.

Give up open source; at-least scale it back for awhile. You need to be worrying more about you when you're this worn out.

-Don't- give up that girlfriend.
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How I wrote an iPhone app in less than 24 hours, part 2
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Often times, The Starter and The Debugger are the same person - the person who approaches programming challenges like affronts to their ability. Once the hard problems are solved, it's just a bit of tidying up and you're set.

I find it very difficult to be a Finisher, and I think many programmers do. Finishing isn't fun, it's not glamorous, and it's not why we do the work, but it's a skill that we need to develop.

I've noticed a trend in my own development. When I first start a project or I'm working on a hard problem, I'm working 10-12 hour days figuring out the interfaces, making the object model pristine (or as pristine as it can be in the language I'm using), making the error messages helpful and the exception handling consistent.

And then, as I'm closing out the project, I start to lose focus. I start watching the clock. I'm out of work as fast as I can. I'm doing, for lack of a better word, the bitch work, but the bitch work is what makes the system.

I've tried to get better at it, but I think there is a fundamental issue with the project lifecycle that makes human beings phone it in in the last bits of a project. Whether it's building a house or writing an application, those last bits of the project seem the most arduous.
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Perhaps it's more accurate to measure scrypt in terms of cache misses rather than CPU time? This is a different resource on multicore servers with different performance implications (at least if we're down to counting 3 or 4 bits of security).
They also spend more time in the app when it stutters and lags due to ad load. /snark

Otherwise... it's just another reason to learn smali.
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You don't need it to be OS-level. When an app with ads turns on, just have it grab a whole bunch of potential ads and cache them in some shared data store (e.g. a Content Provider).

I imagine that the harder part is grabbing the right ads so that you have something relevant to show. There's also some concern about leaking ad information, but I'm not sure how much advertisers care about that.
There are many webcomic artists who make a tidy profit on the same model (look at Rich Burlew's recent kickstarter.) If a niche artist can make that much, I'm sure mainstream artists can make at least that much.

And the value of getting the money directly with no middlemen is substantial.
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That's great that you can watch a clip on the website! I like Aziz Ansari.
Even if they won't do that, they'll go to their lab to do the must-do assignments using MS Office for certain type of assignments.

A person close to me is currently taking Accounting courses and calculator + paper do not cut it. You need Excel.
"Many people even express shock, when someone above 27-28 codes or is involved in some tech work. Its considered as a sign of incompetence and under performance, like as though the person isn't really ready for the 'actual' stuff yet."

Such odd thinking. So... you do coding for a few years - doing stupid/wrong/mistake-filled code - to work your way up to "manager", then oversee people who are also doing stuff wrong. And if you actually learn during those first few years, and, say, get to 30 and are good at developing and actually can develop well, you're an outcast/outsider?

What other industries does India have this same mindset in?
Heavy drinking? Dubious attitudes toward women? Lionizing lack of sleep and getting shot at?
You only need to be online to open and save the file. You can switch apps and go back to DroidEdit and still have your file open, even if Android decides to kill DroidEdit in a low memory situation.
Recording artists do solo projects all the time.

Stand up doesn't require much in the way of production value.
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The main advantages are listed on the page. Being able to apply CSS styles is the biggest one.
just what I was thinking
Ask HN: do you think i should put more efforts in this jquery plugin?
I just developed this night a jquery plugin allowing you to simulate live text typing on DOM elements. It is very basic for now since it is just a few hours fresh.

I think it could be handy for some designers to make their website feel more dynamic, for example for coding tutorial or writing lessons producers. Any thoughts to share?

Github: https://github.com/gwendall/textplayer

Demo: https://gwendall.github.com
I highly doubt that Louis CK is the most popular working comedian. He seems really underrated, in my experience.

Either way, I bought that show and loved it, probably will get this too.
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Off-topic and irrelevant to the OP. Have you been drinking by any chance?
I know Quora hired Alex Gaynor to move them to PyPy last summer. Is anyone else actually using non-CPython 2.x in the real world?
Same for me. Adaway and LBE followed later.
Should work for other cities (not that city would matter).
Thank you for providing a paid version (too many apps don't even allow that option), but I would suggest getting rid of the free version altogether as it cheapens your product and, quite honestly, the Android platform. It will merely bring "reviews" like the quoted.

This is not the sort of app that fits the free profile, and anyone unwilling to pay the token amount isn't a real user, and there is little to no chance you'll make any significant amount on the ads in it. Make this the trial version -- no ads -- with some sort of arbitrary limit.
Link to documentation? If I wanted to build my own little JavaScript preprocessor and make it use SourceMaps in Chrome, how would I know the file format(s)?
> Incidentally and completely off-topic, unless your mental associations are as loose as mine, but I was recently rather shocked to find out that alcohol is a neurotoxin

Of course it's a neurotoxin, the whole point is that it messes up the way your brain operates in a way that happens to be enjoyable.
Now added to the small list of SPDY enabled sites as I find them:

https://www.webtide.com/
https://twitter.com
https://spdytest.com
https://spdy-twitlog.indutny.com
https://www.codecentric.de
(and of course google.com, gmail and youtube.com)

Of course the number will explode in a few months but fun to know the handful in the "early days".

ps. SPDY indicator for Firefox 11+ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/spdy-indicato...
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It has begun quite a while ago with podcasts. Adam Carolla runs a whole podcast production shop in addition to his own hugely popular show and even some spin-offs, then there's the Nerdist (same thing), Joe Rogan has a popular show, Doug Benson, Bill Burr and many others.

Comedians just seem more... entrepreneurial. It would be interesting whether it's because there's less structure (existing or required) in the comedy world, or because comedy attracts more independent performers.
Those were my exact thoughts. There is a difference in running an idea by a couple of people in order to get feedback. Telling the whole world is a completely different thing. There will be times when being ahead of a competitor - even only a couple of months - makes the difference between success and failure.
Kudos to the piece for being well written, readable, and clear. But I'm worried about a "for the rest of us" that starts off with first Plato and then lambda calculus.

The problem with "the rest of us" is that these concepts aren't inherently neat. Disclaimer: I'm not one of "rest of us". I'm learning Haskell, just because I enjoy having to think in a new way.

A lot of FP explanations start off with immutability. After plato and lambda calc, that's where this one goes, too. I think because it's a relatively simple concept, and kind of mind blowing that you could do something useful without incrementing i in a for loop. And then the follow up example is normally how you can replicate a for loop in functional programming. Which is again neat.

But if you aren't into neat things for their own sakes, you've got to ask why? Why replicate a for loop when you could just use one? (answer: you don't really replicate for loops in FP) They aren't asking why, in the sense that they're curious. They're asking why in the sense of "Why would anyone do that? That's stupid."

If you aren't into having your mind blown for no apparent reason (some aren't) the only really compelling thing about the first several pages of the piece is the "Benefits of FP". That's the motivation to learn these crazy new concepts. It should really come first. I think it should come first in any discussion of FP for people who aren't familiar with it.

Because for most people to learn, they need a motivation. Your programs will be faster because you can do concurrency super easy is pretty good motivation. Sadly, "because it's neat," is generally not.
So, obviously, the solution here is to have tighter integration of ad platforms with the underlying system, perhaps an ads repo that installed applications can access and which is optimized for power use.

Or, you know, you could charge for your applications and stop putting ads in altogether.

It will be a dark day, my friends, when there is kernel support for advertisements.
There's probably a lot to be said for comedians generally acting alone or in pairs. Even when you get a group of four together you're considerably less flexible.
Oh hey -- here's Google's current draft, linked from the FireFox bugs about it: https://docs.google.com/a/ooyala.com/document/d/1U1RGAehQwRy...
My barista already does that because we have a face to face relationship and she knows what I like to drink.

"Hi, how are you doing today? The usual?"
"Morning! Very well thank you - yes please."
I really look forward to the day, when, as a general consumer and user of computers, I can just completely ignore hard drive capacity (cause it's just always bigger than I need). Even though it won't be, I will just perceive it as limitless. I'm almost there, but not quite. It's amazing how much useless busy work limited hard drive capacity generates on an individual and organizational level. Can't wait to be free of that.
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Nothing in their post indicates heterosexuality.
This article is an intro to the screencast the author has created and is selling for $15 at https://workshops.thoughtbot.com/pages/tmux . It is linked to at the bottom of the page. I really enjoy learning about new pieces of software but in my personal opinion $15 for a 26 minute screencast is kind of pricey.
It's also something of a public health issue given how most users re-use some passwords across multiple sites.

"Site A" may be less than careful about security since they perceive their data as being of low value (e.g. "register for a chance to win free movie tickets"). But when they get hacked and their users' passwords cracked, it will likely expose plenty of Facebook and online banking credentials.
Totally agree about Gitorious, but I think it'd be wise to support GitHub (and Bitbucket) as they are used by a large chunk of people.
I did catch your conclusions in the penultimate paragraph. However, I don't believe that "assigning [a] quality control role to the next person downstream" is a workable solution. This is a form of passing the buck, saddling someone else with your problems, etc.

In your reply here, you say that you've learned that by working as a debugger/finisher you've learned how to start stuff better. That is worthy of further exposition as so many people suffer from the exact same problem.

And as much as false categorization & naming hurts your best point, it sure seems to have caught HN's attention, so marketing may be where your true genius lies. That's cool -- there's lots of money in marketing :)
i wrote this article off about when it makes incorrect comparisons between immutable values and final variables. someone who read it, is the rest of the article worth reading, or even accurate?

there's certainly a need for articles like this, targetting an audience of java devs, if only they were correct. I haven't found much.
Well, mine had falling snowflakes even when it was summer.
>I see 60TB is the upper bound for 3.5 inch, so not much wrong with the title, is it?

Well the problem there is that it's a theoretical upper bound, which is another way of saying "we have not yet found a specific reason that 3.5 inch 60TB drives should be impossible with this technology". That is a far cry from "on their way".
In related news: http://www.alcowebizer.com/news.ycombinator.com
I wonder if magicians could do the same. Seems like they could.

The live performers with a rep can cover a lot of production cost by selling tickets, then the video income can be mostly gravy.
You don't need it to be OS-level. When an app with ads turns on, just have it grab a whole bunch of potential ads and cache them in some shared data store

That alone would require it to be OS-level, at least on iOS (AFAIK).
I will be interested to see the results of this. My prediction is that it's a novelty and the appeal will eventually drop off when the sales do (IE: people torrent it instead of buying)
You basically ripped off Silex

http://silex.sensiolabs.org/
I've never used EmacsWiki, but the tone of this article seems a bit off, mocking the author of EmacsWiki for using his own software, etc.