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No. The economy is, by and large, not a zero sum game.

Otherwise, why are N billion people by and large better off than however many people there were 200 years ago?
That is an incredibly impressive feat, especially considering there's no VBA involved.
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I have been to Uganda a few years ago to work on a voluntary project. If you see numbers like the number of people living under $1 per day and you see the images on TV you come to think of people in Africa just as pitiful. However, I got the feeling that the people in Uganda are actually more happy than the people in Northern Europe. Maybe wealth is actually inversely correlated with happiness?
Well, we'll reach 10 billions in no time at the rate the world population is growing.
This is actually great. They had a bunch of problems to solve with limited interface options. They picked the simplest combination of options, found the solution worked and stuck with it. All too often I find myself looking at something and saying "ewww!" and writing my own code without exploring the other, less glamorous options.

This weekend I nearly slammed my head into the wall after spending half the day implementing and testing shared caching for my high volume distributed web scraper according to part 6 of the HTTP RFC (aside: I cannot believe how something so simple has been made so complicated)... only to remember I'd totally forgotten I could just stick a caching proxy server (e.g. nginx) in front of the scraper and have it do all the hard work. Later I remembered why I wanted to control caching, primarily to do with some future plans, but right now I could have gotten along just fine with a caching proxy server.

When I'm tired and not thinking straight I often dive straight into the next task without asking the right questions. I've been trying to get into the habit by creating tasks in PivotalTracker and looking over other stuff to remind myself of how much else there is to do so I'm forced to ask myself "is this really what I should be working on next?", but I still slip up even after YEARS of relearning this lesson. The annoying thing is I'm very good at planning and allocating tasks to a team, then managing their progress, but very inconsistent when I'm both the manager and developer.
It looks very good! Don't say he's not a programmer... He is, but doesn't know it yet.
It's a valid use of GPL in dual licensing context. Other examples of dual licensing are: VirtualBox, MongoDB, BerkeleyDB.

All patch contributors who initially chose GPL side of dual licensing model should sign copyright disclaimer for their patches, otherwise their code won't be accepted into the main repository. Alternatively, patchmaker may execute his/her GPL rights and fork the project (e.g. Percona).
Hoard is very nice and this kind of programming really interests me.

An alternative is tcmalloc by Google:

http://goog-perftools.sourceforge.net/doc/tcmalloc.html
I see your point, but then isn't wealth always relative? If scarcity isn't used as a yard stick for money creation how can inflation be avoided?
I can honestly say that I have not read any single one of those books. My first C++ book was C++ for dummies, after that everything I learned was from online tutorials, from actually doing it, and then by the time I reached college my knowledge was already above what the instructors were teaching in class.

I have quite a few programming books, mostly cookbooks though, that show little examples/snippets and or O'Reilly reference books that I used to purchase when starting a new language to get an idea for the syntax. The best book that I have ever bought and read was "Advanced UNIX Programming" by Marc J. Rochkind. It helped me get a much firmer grasp on Unix programming and along with it C which I was lacking at the time.

I've got a copy of the Dragon book sitting on my desk, it is waiting to be read, waiting to be devoured and played with, but so far I just haven't had the time.

One book I would like to read and wrap my head around is the Gang of Four book, it seems like it is important to know the various different design patterns, but so far I don't feel like I have missed out and can recognise good design practices based solely on how they feel while I am writing them.
But, almost no one seems to offer a discount for cash - which they pay 0% on and they don't have to wait to collect from the credit card companies.

There are so many of these alternative payments systems available nowadays, but none seem to really offer any benefits (or protection or increased warranties) to me over a credit card to change my personal purchasing behavior.
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This reminds me of the "Monty Hall Problem". If you have taken a little statistics and learned about independent events it seems much more likely that you will stand your ground and stick with your initial selection, sure that it is the right way to go, while remembering that getting two coin flips of heads in a row has no bearing on the odds of the third coin flip. When actually you are confronted with an entirely different kind of problem and simply don't realize it. Had you known nothing about independent events you might be more open to changing your selection.
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Maybe the L here is for the twitter page loading time. ;)
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Got it, sorry for being impatient ;-)
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His book A Timeless Way of Building is also good. Nothing thats really applicable to software though, but very insightful.
Like everything in capitalism, third world improvements is just an investment. The debt is due already for some nations and soon the next batch will follow the "debt settlement".

Look around yourself in your country. Are people good enough there and no "occupy wall street" actions taking place?

I know how the things are in the helped to be "developed" countries, and one from one of those.
Claiming that anyone discussing inequality is implying economics is a zero-sum game is making a strawman argument.

There is a continuum between two extremes - at one extreme, you have a zero sum relationship, where the total output (as measured by some sensible metric) is capped and it gets divided up, through to a view where there are unlimited resources and no constraints on growth, and the activities of people are synergistic but not competitive.

Both ends of the continuum are easily shown to be fallacious, but your argument only holds if you assume the unlimited resource end of the continuum is true.

The reality is that there are finite resources, and physical, biological and sociological limits how fast and efficiently they can be sustainably exploited. That said, there is clearly a lot of room for improvement in how efficiently we use resources - as many Internet startups are doing - as well as how sustainably we use them.
I've got it too, and so do a lot of people I work with. I wonder if having a lot of half-finished projects is common in the IT world, I think it is.

For me the joy is in figuring out how I would construct stuff, once everything is figured out... the joy is gone. The last step, actually making it, is almost never reached.
Well, in my compilers course, we used the Dragon Book and had programming assignments in Lex and Yacc/Bison (which the latest edition does cover). TBH, I found those assignments quite fun to solve. Of course, that isn't writing a compiler from absolutely nothing, but it did make us more confident of the stuff we were learning.
I have the same bug.
Other ones : shift+enter just goes up not adding a new entry before
Pressing enter adds an entry but after that, the CTRL key adds new entries everytime.
Nothing like a text editor post to get the emotions going..:-)
Yep the movie times searches on the uk are messed up beyond belife even on Google.co.uk - Google insistes on serving up me the restuls for Bedford Texas and not Bedford in the Uk
Having enough to eat is having enough to eat: it doesn't matter if someone else eats in a fancy restaurant.

Edit: status is relative - if everyone else has a Ferrari, and I only have a Fiat, I probably feel poorer. However, I still have a car that is better, faster, and safer than anything that existed 100 years ago.

Edit#2: the above is one reason that worrying about what you have in an objective sense is a lot healthier than worrying about status/relative wealth.
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I believe I have apparently demonstrated that I am too stupid to identify good jokes. :(
I was having some weird problems two, with some commands not even being recorded.

As people on the blog commented, I've followed and only include `history -a`. Running `history -n` would screw up the workflow of pressing the up cursor to scroll through the current terminal's history.
that book contains many errors and should not be relied upon http://www.cs.umd.edu/~oleary/c660/survival.html
(look under dubious software)
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Paypal is more of a wallet service that works with real currency. Even then it's quite heavily regulated in India, where I live. I'm not sure about other developing nations. FB credits have extremely limited use as far as I know, so it's not much of a threat. Another non state-issued currency is food coupons (like sodexo). As long as the new currency cannot be universally used, it's of no concern to the authorities.

You cannot, for example, pay some shady person for a handgun with FB credits or food coupons. From what I can tell, your currency will make that possible. If this transaction happens with a regular bank account (through creditcard or bank transfer), the bank will be able to point the police to the person involved. Will you also be able to do this? The price for reliably collecting, holding, updating such information is quite high.
It's probably got more to do with choice. If those TED talks are to be believed, then choice is bad for mental health. If you are wealthy or live in a wealthy country then you have lots of choice. It's somewhat ironic because politicians that operate within wealthy countries will often emphasize choice as a reason for privatising public services etc.
So what is really different compared to other job boards besides the good will of the admins to keep it clean of recruiters spam?
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This story about Steve Jobs is probably relevant:

I was sitting in Steve's office when Lynn Takahashi, Steve's assistant, announced Knuth's arrival. Steve bounced out of his chair, bounded over to the door and extended a welcoming hand.

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Professor Knuth," Steve said. "I've read all of your books."

"You're full of shit," Knuth responded.

(http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...)
They have no points at all and you must have missed English 101.

First sentence:

"THE past four years have seen the worst economic crisis since the 1930s and the biggest food-price increases since the 1970s. That must surely have swollen the ranks of the poor."

I'd expect them to at least address the point they are trying to make but nothing in the article supports it. The source of the article (the data) ends in 2008 so that's way too short to make any conclusion on the impact of the economic downturn.

Economies have some level of inertia and I'd say that it's inversely proportional to the said economy's dynamism.

They admit it themselves:

"This implies that the long-term rate of poverty reduction—slightly over one percentage point a year—continued unabated in 2008-10, despite the dual crisis."

Same for 2011, I'd say poor countries have seen very little investment coming from Europe in late 2011 as most economic resources were shed in the debt crisis and protection plan.

"A lot of the credit goes to China"

Absolutely true. Outside China, I have personally witnessed huge changes happening thanks to China and its economic power and fearless investments. They literally blow in Laos' economies and are largely responsible for Myanmar current boom, spending money where their mouth is.

In the end, the article does a great job at showing one of China's good side but they certainly aren't proving their initial claim.

For people with short memories, China is doing what Europe and the North America was doing during the post-WWII era. I bet they are going to make the same mistakes and it's already common knowledge they have started (they bribe foreign officials easily and generously).
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"How many have actually read Code Complete (HN is probably a bad sample)?"

Honestly, how many programmers have actually read any book about programming outside of University classes? I'm guessing not many.

On another note, Effective C++ is not only a great book, it is the book which single-handedly made me a much better programmer, and made me understand C++. This is after half a year of training/working in C++. It is my most highly recommended book for really grokking C++. My only regret is that there isn't a similar book for most of the languages I know.
I went to Uganda three years ago and I was amazed at their amiability and apparent happiness, especially considering their situation. I was greeted with smiles everywhere I went. I'm from Iceland and in comparison Icelanders are very cold. Perhaps the climate is a factor?
Ben Rudolph isn't "[s]ome generic company apologist, unrelated to the events in question" - he's one of the guys behind the Smoked By Windows Phone promotion.[1]

[1] http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/windowsphone/arch...
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I'm from and working on a project in India, and I'd like to start charging for my products. Unfortunately, payment processing here is absolute rot. Not even Paypal operates effectively in this country, leave alone Braintree or Stripe.

So I'm looking to set up an LLC in the US. I know it's been done before by the likes of Freshdesk, but the more research I do the move I'm convinced it would make more sense to have some kind of presence there. Stripe seems to want details of actual US citizens to activate accounts, and I'm sure banking will be much easier that way too.

What would be the best way to structure a company like this? Can I get an 'agent' or lawyer in the US who would own and run the company for me, create the necessary accounts, file tax returns, etc? Is this a good idea at all?
Is this the endgame, apps split between client and server?.

I sincerely hope not, the current popularity for moving things client is just a band aid. The real problem is the network is not quick and redundant enough.

Ideally every node on the internet would be a server.
I get the impression that this is supported by hn to some extent by the "don't comment with me-too, or cool-stuff" kind of rules. If you see something that's actually new to you, you'll usually have a response like: this is good (up vote), disagree (comment), know something more (informative comment), know something related / similar (start slightly off-topic but related comment thread). And these are all useful comments to some extent.

If it's really news to you, the comment is really unlikely to be informative or deep. Actually there are people who are almost always in disagreement with news on some topic, but I don't think they're bad (see tptacek on every homemade-crypto related article).

I think the general negative response is just a result of the news themselves. Before you really get to understand/apply/have fun with some of the stuff, it will be far away from the front page already. But as long as there's at least a bit of constructive criticism in the negative ones, I think I'm fine with it.
No amount voting down can change the fact that economics is another form of war nowadays. The North American empire thrives at the moment, as the Romans did some time ago.

But who wins the global world is yet to be seen.
Kind of defeat the point of exceptions in the first place. It becomes more like an "enhance error return value" thing.

The thing about an exception is that you can't do about it in a number of scopes. When you encounter the exception you just just jump to the scope where you can do something about it.
From the article:

The problem with Design Patterns is that much of the information in the book (but not enough of it) is accessible elsewhere.

Maybe now, but I don't think this was true when the GoF book was published in 1995. My recollection is that there weren't a lot of books on software architecture (code- or system-level) back then because it wasn't so much of an issue. Most of us were writing monolithic C code or trying to get reuse of C++ libraries. The whole "architecture astronaut" thing hadn't got started.

That is was so ahead of its time is what makes it an important book.
Nit: 'man echo' doesn't show bash's built-in echo. You'd use 'help' for that.

If you want to invoke the echo executable, specify it explicity (/bin/echo). Limitations on POSIX limitations posted by others noted.
Merchants incur expenses dealing with cash as well, so accepting $0.98 worth of bitcoin might be equivalent to accepting $1.00 in cash and coin after the hassle of dealing with cash in factored in.

It will be some time before we see bitcoin used at retail, point of sale. But it really solves problems for online purchases -- for the merchant. And maybe that's where the the sweet spot is. If you want what the merchant sells and the merchant wants bitcoin (for the reasons you state -- protection from fraudulent customer chargebacks), you won't be given the opportunity to use your credit card.
I'm sorry, but that is just entitlement garbage that you are spewing. I don't dispute that there are certainly corrupt individuals in the world, but to cast every person of sufficient wealth as corrupting "the gvmt" and screwing the poor is near-sighted at best. I could give you countless examples of wealthy individuals that have donated significant amounts of money and time to help the poor, both domestically and internationally, although I suspect it would be ignored.

You are entitled to your opinion, but your response doesn't even address the reason the poster referenced the article. Instead, you launched into some diatribe about evil rich folk. Reading the full article probably won't change your opinion, but it does address this "us vs. them" mindset you are in to some degree. It also contains well-reasoned arguments for variation in income, including the one the grandparent post mentioned.

From PGs article: But since for most of the world's history the main route to wealth was to steal it, we tend to be suspicious of rich people
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Well,
I didn't find Design Patterns as "dry", it was quite entertaining for me. Maybe because I didn't know anything about design patterns when I read it. On the other hand I reread it about 2 years after the first read and I still found it quite interesting.

Also, I've read the whole Code Complete and it was also interesting and I considered it one of the best books for programmers.

As for CLRS - boring as *%&^%#, I just can't manage to get past the sorting chapter. AFAIR there are not exercise answers so one is left alone when doing them, which mostly disqualifies every such book for anyone who is studying it on it's own, not in a class room.

Skiena's book is far, far better written, but unfortunately some of the exercises are to thought for me so when I'm reading my exercises are from 2-3 chapters behind. Although it's good that there is a wiki with (not always correct) answers.

Haven't read TAOCP.
Isn't this just a capitalist supporting publication trying to justify that which it supports? Poverty groups would, rightly, do the same thing. No criticism, but, well, they would wouldn't they? That's the way it is. Don't we all "big up" that which we believe in?

Trouble is, every one has an agenda and its really hard to ever know the truth. I have no idea if this is self serving fantasy or reality.
Good point, but then again, control over memory is kind of the C killer feature, so you should know how memory flows around in your program.

If you use libraries that use internal malloc'ed memory, etc, you have to clean at the exception call site by calling the library cleanup function.
But noble enough to admit it. So everything's balanced out.
I'd like to use this joke as an opportunity for a more serious point. It's a thing that I actually always wondered. Why is the industry spending so much time advocating that we can write however unoptimal code we like, because it's always cheaper to throw in another server? Wouldn't spending time to optimize software be able to create serious savings in worldwide emissions, given that any given piece of software is likely to be used by 10k - 10M people?

I know that optimizing software for carbon footprint is probably going against The Economy itself, but isn't it the point where our current economy of consumption and growth is leading us to destruction? Maybe there is way to incentivize savings more?
Seriously. Who dreams this stuff up?

It can't go well in the age of the Internet. This is the top story on a couple of sites I read. All it would take is for the mainstream (non-tech) press to pick it up to create some real bad publicity.
> I often hear TAOCP described as the series of programming books "that every programmer should read." I think this is simply untrue. Before I'm burned at the stake for blasphemy, allow me to explain.

Really? I find that articles, blog posts and comments like to point out that this is something people actually say. I think that is untrue. It feels like one of the standard pseudo-oppositions that people take in order to write a piece - as if it was controversial - even if it isn't.

Obviously it's placed on greatest CS books list, or something that is valuable to have as a reference, but that's not the same thing as it being recommended reading for programmers.
The meat of this is that China has moved it's poor upwards on average but the rest of the world is completely unchanged. A moronic article that fails to support its central thesis. All it does prove is that people in China are doing better.
Rematch? How about you pony up the hardware you owe the person? Lame with a side of lame.
There is a button for job offer "remote friendly" but no "tag" associated in the posting. And when reading the offer nothing indicates that the offer is really "remote friendly". Is it a hidden field selected by the recruiter when posting the offer? Are the tags added by you?