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Honestly I fail to see a more readable thing, having experience with PHP it is really hard to me to read the snow code. A lot of the syntax just doesnt make sense to me.

There is also another thing that annoys me, the significant whitespaces, that is something I do not like in python (while I like the rest of it, the indentation instead of brackets is annoying), yes I agree that indented code is more readable, and I like to read indented but I like to write my code without caring for indentation and fix it after it is doing what I want (read: tell my IDE to indent it, brackets help on that).
The replacement of .= for %= is just added confusion there is really no gain, and the return for <- seems just wrong looks like just a way to avoid using characters.
Dropping the semicolons doesnt make much difference to me, but being used to them it could be a problem, when writing in languages that dont require them I write them on habit leading to a long list of syntax errors.

Warning personal rant:
Why do people hate java like syntax and brackets WHYYYYYYYYYY? Whats wrong with brackets honestly???

Sorry just had to say that.
In other words, dysfunctional city centers == why we can't have nice things.
It would be interesting to know the distribution of submissions versus time.
I was wondering the same thing. At Emory we were handed a few M68K assembly routines but hand to crank out the rest of the OS ourselves.

It looks like MIT does something similar. They study xv6 but have to implement an OS with different specifications. See http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2011/overview.html
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Think more that as I am not inside your head, I do not have the slightest clue as to what your one-word post is intended to communicate.
I'm sure they didn't, but Skype is just that good. Every single VOIP system my group used had issues. The microphone picking up audio from speakers and keyboard typing being two of the most problematic. Skype was the only one where that wasn't an issue. Their system just automagically filters out the cruft.

Meanwhile the voice chat built into gmail was one of the absolute worst and was completely unusable. It's a much more complicated problem than people realize.
That's why we have the Accept-Encoding header. Neither clients nor servers would need to support alternate compression schemes, either now or in the future. But if they both did, maybe there could be some benefit.
This is outdated, I can find you a handful of hosts that offer Perl, Python and Ruby for under five bucks a month.
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LZO, though, has the potential problem or benefit (depending on your situation) of not being readily incorporable into proprietary software without navigating Oberhumer's commercial-license maze, unless there's some form of clean-room reimplementation around that I don't know about. (“LZO Professional” at http://www.oberhumer.com/products/lzo-professional/ claims to be available only as a “binary-only evaluation library” under NDA; I don't know whether “evaluation” in this context would obstruct use in an actual product.) The zlib license makes it much easier to deploy. liblzma seems to be in the public domain.
He has pressurised containers for samples.
There are many legitimate uses for self-signed certificates, especially those intended for trust-on-first-use.
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Pretty much this. I own a car that I essentially inherited. The cost of it to me in gas, insurance and tax is borderline unacceptable for the use I have for it. I can't imagine spending significant amounts on a new car because I can't see how the use it offers me would be worth it.
> The move toward larger cities has been a trend all over the world for more than a century. It's hardly a distinguishing factor for people a certain age.

What New York, Boston, Seattle, and Portland have in common isn't that they're big cities, but that they're dense and amenable to non-car transportation. Notice that he didn't mention Los Angeles or Houston, which are still big cities, but which are also relatively sparse monstrosities that are only navigable by car.

> Further, oddly enough, there are lots of people, of all ages, who don't live in New York, etc. Why don't they move? Maybe because they don't want to.

You're missing the point. A good way to measure the desirability of a given location is to compare rent, because rent literally measures the market value of living in that location. It turns out the market value of living in Seattle, Portland, New York, or Boston is pretty high, which is the free market's way of telling us that people want to live there.
If a solution can be local, it should be. The reason the US Constitution was so limited in the powers that it gave the Govt was because those powers not listed were to be left to the states. That was what the 10th amendment was all about.

It's been very much ignored over the last 90 years, and that's a shame.
Pain-killer gel produced from a new rare plant discovered within the actual Peruvian rainforest is undoubtedly to replace the present using shots throughout dental care methods.

The plant known as Acmella oleracea seems to have outstanding painkilling qualities and also have already been used for hundreds of years through Incas in order to thoroughly clean the teeth as well as treat tooth ache, ulcers as well as abscesses.
is it really ok to drop the word "maybe" from the front of that quote?
This happened to my father. Not from this company, but from others.

We didn't catch it for months. T-Mobile was kind enough to remove charges for a few months back, but said they couldn't remove anything beyond that. Which I felt was understandable.

What I didn't like was that the only way to block future versions of these was to block messaging entirely for that line, and to that (without blocking the other lines) was to pay for a service that let me set fine-grained restrictions on the lines.

See, it's my dad's line, and he's not tech-savvy, so he thought that ignoring them was the best way to go. I don't blame him, as that's the way it should be. Nobody should be able to add charges to your line without express permission.

That should include calling numbers that have a toll charge, too. It should actually ask you when you call the number if you're willing to pay the charge. Likewise for SMS messages. If not, the call/SMS won't go through.

Why this has managed to be this way for so long is beyond me. It only serves to promote fraud.
A 'geek', being someone who solves problems and therefore does actual work, is a member of the working class.

The middle manager, equivalent to a slave overseer, has a different skillset related to the manipulation and control of personnel, that takes time and practice to develop.

In order for a technical worker to 'learn to delegate', i.e., adopt the ownership mentality and become a member of that class, he must make both a moral adjustment and learn a whole new set of personal manipulation and politicking skills.

But before that is even possible he must gain enough capital to purchase the workers.

Perhaps the secret to gaining capital is simply to appear as if one is already a member of the ownership class, whether that is really true or not.
Looking at the app's video, it appears to be a directed soundboard with a tree structure, parts of speech, and queueing of words:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpafqM1kiNo

Even if the app got sued out of existence, implementing the same functionality would be fairly trivial.

I'm assuming that the unique, patentable portions are a lot of "when used in this way" clauses, and the speech research to come up with the contents of the soundboards.

The end run around this would be an generic soundboard app with a bunch of silly noises but with the ability to load other soundboards and rulesets in a set data format that would implement the functionality.
To bad most entry level managers are really just team leads with supervisor responsibilities. In the past I have had to spend a considerable amount of time getting the team far enough ahead of the day to day minitua so we can focus on more long term strategy. When I fight piddly day to day problems I feel like a supervisor, when I get to focus the team on long term I feel like a manager. I wish I could spend more time as a manager/leader but most businesses have it honed to a science to give you what feels like less resources than the bare minimum, so to step out of that comfort zone and hand off a risky technical problem to a junior employee that is most likely going to fail and make you more behind is very very tough, but I am improving.
Some of his movies are good. Some of his movies are intentionally crafted solely for popularity (Titanic, for example). When doing so results in multi-billion dollar revenues can you really blame the guy?
Why'd you delete this post and resubmit it just now?
Often times I’ll want to grab just one part of a command’s output to use for the input of another command. Sometimes I can use grep to do this, and sometimes grep isn’t quite flexible enough and sed is required. The regular expression required to get sed to do the right thing is often complex on its own, and of course the flags need to be set appropriately. If the data format is in columns, sometimes cut can be simpler.

Master Foo nodded and replied: "When you are hungry, eat; when you are thirsty, drink; when you are tired, sleep."

Upon hearing this, the novice was enlightened.

-- http://catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/shell-tools.html
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Well, pacemakers already use nuclear material due to it's long lived nature and it's stability.

Unfortunately, that's nuclear's only strength with something so small. Chemical batteries are much more cost effective, lighter and much more powerful(power-wise) than RTG's.

Also, for most things, including quadcopters, use of radioactive-material, not only is a risk, is a major waste. Most technology, in these days, appear to last 5 years(if you're lucky). Having batteries, that outlasts what it powers by magnitudes of time, is just not sane.
then again PHP is arguably a framework itself and when dealing with something either very simple or very complex Yii feels to verbose.
>Without a doubt, Siri was a great achievement for Apple and Steve Jobs, helping to introduce virtual personal assistants to millions of consumers, and changing forever the way we view our smartphones.

That is pushing it a little too far in my opinion. To most people I know Siri was a novelty that has already worn off.
I had to make some changes and it didn't work with the previous link.
Ask HN: Creating beautiful, single-page articles?
Evening guys, I remember seeing a number of web applications to create beautiful & professional single-page articles w/ clean design and crisp typography. Can you point me in the right direction? Thanks.

Something along the lines of substance.io.
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> Chances are, if you got bored it wasn't going to turn out well anyhow. Listen to what your subconscious is trying to tell you.

I agree with most of this post, but I disagree with this sentence. It's very, very easy to trick yourself into believing that a great idea that you're working on is not actually interesting. The problem is that you've been working with the idea so much that you no longer are seeing the thing you're making with fresh eyes.

I know this because it's happened to me over and over again. My most salient example was when I was working on a game a few years ago. I got a month (this was during high school, so development times weren't that long :)) into development and started thinking it was crap, no one was going to like it - things like that. Normally, I would just stop and work on another idea, but this time I did something a bit unusual - I posted the game and asked for feedback from the game community. This was the turning point. They said that it was great, I should keep working on it, and they'd love to play it when it was done.

I finished it. It turned out to be my most successful game, ever. It netted hundreds of thousands of views. It's been on dozens of websites. And to think that I was completely bored and uninterested with it weeks before I finished.

Incidentally, I think this raises a great way of getting good at finishing: show your unfinished work to other people. If it's good, they'll love it, and the self-confidence boost you'll get from that can carry you further. And if they hate it, well, maybe you should be working on something else after all :-)
So, in the end it worked on a file. :-)
Living in central London I do not need a car to get around. I commute to work using the London Underground, and I have to say, it is the most unhappy time of my day to be a part of that system. I've lived in Tokyo for five years and have never been annoyed at public transport there, but after one year of London I've had enough. I'd gladly move to an open and wide space where I could get around by car. Unfortunately there is no such place in the UK (or anywhere in Western Europe) that offers sufficient employment options. Cars, public transport, it's a mixed blessing really.
Since the entire article and the point of the whole enterprise is to document that life, I say yes. It's a reasonable rejoinder to "lifeless."

Plus I linked to the article, so it's not like I was being misleading. I was stating my point succinctly.
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Would be nice if it was 64bit. Seems a bit late.
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I suffer from this too (approaching 30 now), however in recent years it's improved.

It started by instead of rushing headfirst, instead recording ideas into a text file. It quickly became apparent that revisiting something written mere weeks earlier would reveal it as total crap, uninteresting, or the wrong approach or similar. That file is now just under 1000 lines, only 3 of which are probably worth revisiting later. It also seems the act of recording an idea has a similar sense of reward that comes with working on it.

Another rule is to mercilessly cull anything half started in a fit of excitement: my ~/src shrank from something like 100 directories to just over 30 right now, and half of those are 3rd party. Lose half a night's sleep coding some crap? Recognize it's undirected crap, and rm it first thing in the morning. The effect of this is less wasted work, more stuff getting recorded and enduring review, less distraction and less temptation in future to mkdir super_foo_project ; vim a.c.

I also promised myself to only work on an idea after finishing the previous. Presently my last "big" idea started in 2008 and only needs a few weeks' dedication to finish. In the meantime tens of weekend projects remain unstarted, as they rightly should. When I finally gain the discipline to finish that project, I'll be in much better shape to execute in future.
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Having lots of unfinished projects is common with people with ADHD. We tend to get over the initial excitement of starting something new and lose interest. In order to be actually diagnosed with ADHD you would have to be affected in other ways that seriously impact your life, but this is one "trait cluster" that a lot of people with ADHD share.

http://add-adhd.lifetips.com/tip/81525/adult-add-adhd/adult-...
Totally true...
Actually, there are packages in hackage with > 100 kloc: CHXHtml KiCS-debugger HaRe
I assume you are looking for a citation for the 9 in 10: http://mbldownloads.com/1108PP_Weisler.pdf

I made a mistake in that it says 9 in 10 go untreated not undiagnosed, though certainly the majority of those untreated are also undiagnosed.

Personally, I'd question why you're willing to challenge a psychiatric disorder like that when you'd never be willing to challenge someone that said "wow, sounds like you might have slipped a disc, you should get that checked out". While undoubtedly there are instances of mistaken diagnosis with ADHD, many objections to the diagnosis have more to do with the viewers confusion between symptoms and moral character.
This already happens and is dismissed on the linked blog comments.

But i have no idea what it IS then
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lzma takes long enough to compress suitably large files that it's not always ideal for operations. While CPU time is generally cheaper than storage space, archiving systems don't always have the most powerful chips in them and tend to favor the cheapest storage possible.
"yacht"
http://nytimes.com has a story on their front page, top middle.
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This is magical, I can't correlate the combination of visual/symbolic/musical elements to any real world analogues. Auditory/musical interactions should be explored by more people in the startup community.
It is about time someone tackles the problem of so many closed disperate people data sets and find a way to merge them!
Lift at that depth is few and far between.
But the rest of the fusion and other transformations work better when lazy.
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>That may sound like suicide, but a recent study showed that most fast-growing US companies take no venture funding at all.

Where can I read it? This sounds like a better story than the article itself.

There should be a rule that journalists have to cite the studies they cite...
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Last year it was all revenue, but we'll be approaching the 7-figure profit mark this year.
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Ask HN: What is my market value?
What's the best resource for figuring out the market value of a certain set of skills as defined by job requirements (instead of an individual's skills)?

More background: I'm renegotiating my first contract ever as a primarily php developer and am not sure where to estimate market rate.
Complete isolation worries me that the idea may not get validated in the first place, and you may waste all that time as a result.
Nowhere in all of this do I see enough real data. Sure, there are statistics about purchases of new cars in the atlantic story and how that's decreased since a couple decades ago... Where's the data for used car sales?

Where are the alternative explanations? Demands for disposable income are greater now, while actual earnings are lower. Student debt is at an all-time high and must-have devices like laptop computers, smart-phones, etc. didn't exist or didn't see the adoption rates that they do now. As for license rates dropping – if you knew you couldn't afford to get a car, wouldn't you be less motivated to get or renew your license?

Further, America is growing more and more urban in population distribution – all of these things could conceivably roll in to a marked decrease in new car purchases without saying that it's an outright u-turn in "car culture".

I may well be wrong, but the assumptions and unexplored alternatives make me less than convinced.
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Ask HN: Recommendations for Local SF CPA
For startup and personal. Preferably one that is able to do both.

I posted this before but didn't get a whole lot of responses the last time around so thought I'd try again. Lots of information out there for startup attorneys, etc... but very little on great CPAs. Any recommendations is greatly appreciated. Curious as to who everyone here uses.
These days you'd use the -fllvm flag
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This article doesn't answer the question put forth in its title. Why DO geeks need to learn how to delegate?

This is a very common behavior used by people who want to distance themselves from technical work. They pick something technical roles don't do and don't have any control over, and then make broad generalizing statements about how technical roles are bad at it (implying that the author is in his or her position because they are good at it). For instance most geeks are in front-line technical roles as individual contributors and don't have anyone to delegate to. It's like a battlefield lieutenant, scared of being sent to the front line and getting shot, proclaiming 'soldiers should learn to simply delegate combat duty.' Dishonest and smug.
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You need to take both the "informed" and "given." Not all pieces of code are "cross platform" and even within that, there's different levels.

In other words, you're talking about one end of the spectrum. You are right, though, that things are moving in that direction.
Thanks for bringing the Opera issue to our attention.

As for the name input prompt, it's true that we could've done something better, but to be fair, this was our first time working with nowjs/nodejs and HTML5/javascript (my first time with HTML5/javascript and I was doing the UI).
"I come from the school of thought that you need to be ultra-prepared and totally understand something and perfect it before even thinking about self-promotion...But, I realized that sometimes, you just need to ship and talk about what you're doing."

I think this is completely spot on, and it took me a long time to realize it. Recently, I'd been wanting to set up continuous deployment at our shop but I didn't know exactly the right way to do it. I also didn't post larger blog posts often at the time. I finally decided I wanted to post about doing continuous deployment with jenkins and capistrano [1].

So I set about to make it work. It's not the most elegant solution, and there are at least 3 things that are suboptimal with my method that I wouldn't use for a mission critical production use case...but we're using it for our own internal apps and our website, and so we don't care that much about those suboptimal bits.

Writing a blog post about how we were doing it generated tons of traffic to our site, and it also provoked a couple of conversations whereby I figured out a couple of things to do to make my method perfect - and subsequently gives me a new blog post later to write :)

Anyway, just wanted to throw in an anecdote - definitely think too many people get buried under the weight of 'but i'm not perfect yet'

[1] http://isotope11.com/blog/continuous-deployment-with-capistr...
> If you're surrounding yourself with talented people

In certain contexts, Yours Truly isn't the one doing the surrounding, so that's a pretty major assumption to make. Any tips for delegating to merely-proficient people?
I'm not sure how to value each individual skill directly, but there are charts that give you some idea of your potential value by degree. http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/info-Degree...

One way to also see a skill may be by job title in your region from job sites like careerbilder or monster though many jobs don't give salary and the ones that do may give you an untruthful range, but it is something.
And even further...I bet many in this situation do some sort of Skype lesson during holiday visits.

Granted, I agree with the grandparent here: ultimately, browser-based software would be easier, but you have an entrenched user base who aren't likely to quickly change to new tech.
Yeah, definitely need a way to jump up/down an octave.