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I think Java is a pretty bad language, but most of your points are provably wrong. You're either grossly misinformed (some of what you say was true about a decade ago, but hasn't been since around the 1.5 release in ~'04) or purposefully spreading lies.

You're factually wrong about the open-source thing: the primary impl of Java is open source (http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u). Sure, some impls like Azul might not be - but that's the joy of an Open language with a real spec, anyone can write an impl under any license they choose.

The claim that Objects have 'too much' overhead is subjective - but also basically wrong. Generally Objects in Java have 8 bytes of straight book-keeping overhead, plus padding to get the size of the fields to the nearest multiple of 8 bytes. That's expensive relative to C, but cheap compared to almost any other object oriented, GCd language (and can often be avoided via primitives, escape analysis, etc). For reference, CPython (the main Python impl) has ~30 bytes of overhead on an Int between tag bits, book keeping, etc last time I investigated.

How do you think the Java concurrency model is flawed? Almost any concurrency model I can think of, from Erlang-style message passing (see: Akka) to the new Fork/Join framework can be implemented in Java since its concurrency primitives are complete. I've even done basic impls of STM on AtomicRefs. Frankly, Java has one of the better defined and fine-grained concurrency models I know of. C++ just got a well-defined memory model in the '11 standard IIRC (vs '04 for the JVM).

I'm with you on the functional programming thing - syntax on anonymous inner classes and a lack of type inference make it way too verbose. But it's (largely) fixed via Project Lambda in Java 8. And, in the meantime, there are plenty of great JVM languages (Scala, Clojure, etc) with better support.
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What is kind of weird is seeing Information Theory and Kolmogorov Complexity being described as "kind of new".

I guess in some sense it is, but for myself in 2012 I recall first hearing about the work of both Claude Shannon and Andrey Kolmogorov as a university student in 1982 in a first year maths / CS bridging lecture called computational mathematics or some such.

Pretty much everything to do with signals, compression, error correction, etc. happened post the invention of the telegraph - you had Gray Codes (patented Frank Gray ~ 1945ish) popping up in recreational mathematics in the 1880s and being applied to the telegraph by Émile Baudot, from that time forward we see the unfolding of much of what is CS / computational mathematics today.

I guess everything last century is "kind of new" but it is starting to feel as though it's all been around for a while now.
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Full marks to FreeBSD for turning research into a practical application. Sadly I'm not hopeful for the Linux community, which routinely ignores and disparages research and innovations from outside itself.
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It would be great if job postings will include regions (Europe, Asia, etc...).
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Saying "I use GNU/Linux": OK. Saying "I don't use Linux and am going to distort your poll results because you didn't use the terminology I prefer": not OK.

And, honestly, if getting a few downvotes for some random thing is "setting a new low bar" then something's wrong with your calibration.
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Python docs. No, really, I've never read any book about python, I started programming in python after reading a few tutorials about a language and then just looked at docs when some question come up. Also, I don't know whether it's just me or not, but I find that python projects tend to have a good documentation.

As for services, I think Parse is a good example of a very well written documentation.
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The problem with the healthcare bill wasn't voter apathy, quite the opposite. It was more-or-less successfully resisted (we'll see what SCOTUS does) by a handful of Blue Dogs who were forced to listen to their relatively conservative constituents. Short of organising large scale migrations of activists into those districts, I don't see what Obama could have done about that.
Maybe one of those facebook lawyers friended him.
This is a one sided narrative which ignores the possibility that code signing provides meaningful anti-malware benefits.

What would you have them do instead?
Red Hat employs various people who seem to solely work on GNOME related technology. Red Hat further sponsors the GNOME conference, and sponsors the GNOME foundation annually (seperate from just conferences).

Giving more money to GNOME: always welcome, but they already do loads.
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When do you update the file containing all the registered .com domain names.
How do you handle the registered domains after you create the file?
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> There needs to be a very compelling reason

For instance, it would be useful to crop an image with the online Pixlr editor, save it to Dropbox -- and then inside of Wordpress to select the image to be viewable on my blog.

I guess this option would be most useful when using media with multiple services.
No. But that doesn't necessarily help. A straight-forward Python to C 'compiler', which emits the code equivalent to running the VM main loop, has no significant performance increase. You have to do a lot more work (e.g., ShedSkin, Cython) to see better performance.
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Did anyone in turn ask to look at your facebook profile? Shouldn't they know who they are applying to work for?
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Love the site, but I'd agree that white on black is hard to read (and so is the green).

A toggle option to change the color scheme (since they convert about the same) would be really cool.

That said, it's your project - do what you want with it! Keep up the good work.
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Aren't these just a subset of what you can get on OSX?

On OSX, as well as the FOSS tools you can also choose from a set of nicely tailored Cocoa apps, some free and some worth paying for.
Is there a character limit of the domains we can search for? (seemed to me to be 20?).

I know there's a huge dropoff in competition when domains start to get long, but there are a few times it would be nice to have.
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Whoa. This is a game.

In the future games like this can be made and most people will enjoy them for that they are: games.
I prefer Mike Lee's explanation of design: UI sets the user's expectation, UX is how well you meet that expectation.
While I agree Java is used everywhere, I think the reasons are very similar to why VHS was much more popular than BETA, or why COBOL still represents a _HUGE_ share in programming language usage.
Javascript is also used in the web, mobile and desktop. I see the latter much better suited for the future.
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Can you succeed without great design? Absolutely.

Does it help? Yes.

Is it needed? Well, some kind of design sense is needed. Does it have to be stellar? Does it require an official Designer/Artist? In some cases, yes and in some cases no. Depends on the business, depends on the software. You'd be surprised at how many people will pay you money just to solve a problem or make some pain go away, or to automate otherwise manual tasks. Don't all have to be purty.
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One problem is that the JVM is specifically designed to be the backend for Java (and an outdated version of Java at that).

It has a number of assumptions hardcoded into its design, making it difficult to use it as a target architecture for programming languages that have different requirements.

You run into problems currently if you need structs, complex numbers, unusal parameter-passing conventions (call by reference, call by name, call by value-result), currying, tail calls, multiple dispatch, multiple inheritance, structural subtyping, algebraic datatypes, continuations, fast thread-local variables, micro-threads, coroutines, ICON/Python/C#/Sather-style generators, nested functions, software transactional memory, etc.

It is not that you cannot have these features (after all, the JVM is Turing-complete, and quite a few JVM languages do support them), it's that at some point using the JVM loses its advantages over, say, targeting the LLVM or CLR. On top of that you have JVM-specific downsides to deal with (such as a fairly large memory footprint even for small processes).
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Scaling could also mean ways of making individual startups bigger, on average.

Thats obviously the point with startups but do you have thoughts on ways of scaling in this dimension?
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I've to register, why?
Perhaps the "Register Now With" button could be a drop-down for the registrars, the changing a preferred registrar feels like an extra needless step.
It is disappointing that you cannot see m_o_c's attention-seeking flamebaiting for what it is.

It's a shame you're happy to allow him to say whatever he likes about a company (and I'm not talking about Google) yet you're unhappy when people calmly correct him; even though you don't know the company, or who works there, or what the situation is, and the people correcting him do know the company, and the people working there, and what the situation is.

A huge chunk of this thread is taken up with pointless responses to m_o_c's comments. He flamebaits Google; Googlers cannot respond fully because stuff is still private; a bunch of people who don't know the truth either side pile on; useful discussion is pushed further down the page.

> If Yegge starts stalking m_o_c on HN

When m_o_c's comment is the first in thread on the first thread on HN there's no stalking needed. m_o_c is deliberately choosing to push the buttons of Googlers knowing that they'll really want to respond (and I'm grateful to them for showing some restraint).
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Using a throwaway account for the sake of anonymity.

How has your experience with Indian outsourcing vendors been? Particularly the famous ones like Wipro, Infosys, TCS. Do they deliver on what they promise? How good is the quality of the solution delivered, considering for a benchmark a medium-complex CRUD application involving interfacing multiple legacy systems?

I am told by few of my friends working in those companies that those vendors care only about the revenue and not about the solution or client. I am looking for inputs so that I can have some background before I get into discussions with hotshots from one of those vendors about outsourcing a couple of IT projects. I am being asked to assess and evaluate one of them as partners for a few IT projects from my employer's parent firm (a bank)

Cheerio!
Yes, this is really excellent news. Good to see the government making some positive, useful changes, rather than just talking the talk, or setting up another 'body' to encourage entrepreneurship
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The KS project is a PC version which i assume will take more to develop than the iPhone game right ? I do not know how much it takes to develop such a game but other games in KS is also asking for similar range (Wasteland 2 got twice the $900k they asked for).
You are taking this too literal. "LSL isn't helping" means that it perpetuates a view of women and dating that is bad for society. I know it is a parody, but even so, it is a small part of the larger problem we have with sexism in our society.
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In fact, we're working towards a new release in the coming month or so. :)
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I think it's also important to be able to look at your habits and the habits of others and create something that is the right trade-off between being abstracted/concise/readable/writeable/efficient/elegant.
I've always been a strong advocate of Red Hat support, and it never ceases to amaze me how many free software (as in freedom, and as in gratis) that I use in my day to day exists thanks to Red Hat.

That said, "self-support subscription" per $349/year doesn't feel right to me. May be the old basic support option wasn't that good, but it WAS support you were paying for.

It doesn't change all the good things around Red Hat, but I must admit it's very disappointing.

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Dylan does work in a similar way. One issue is that we don't go far enough yet, particularly with functions, so while you can specify a vector of integers, you can't (yet) specify a function that takes an integer parameter, just a function. We'd like to do something about that this year.
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Huh. Larry is a loser. A sad loser who fails with women all the time. So this game has no major male character who is not displayed as a complete loser. This is sexism!

Or did you never play Larry and posted after looking at random third-party media about it?

Seriously, the game series is about the struggle of a stereotype of a "disgusting" male. And it is dark humour, sarcasm, cynism, you name it.
This was a 14-year-old. Any modern LSL game would be rated 18+. I'm not saying media influence isn't real (heck, I don't think i've ever wanted a big house until I watched Desperate Housewives), but that it can and should be managed to a degree.
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Thanks for that.

In England we have Sex, Sexual Preference, Race, Religion, Age, and Disability.

There's a Rehabilitation of Offenders Act which covers what you're allowed to do with people who have a criminal record.
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Ask HN: Improving Strengths or Improving weakness?
There is alot of debate about if one should focus on improving strengths or improving weakness.

Such as this article by Jim Taylor, Ph.D., who is a clinical associate professor at the University of Denver.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-power-prime/201201/personal-growth-know-thyself-is-the-first-step-life-change

Most people love to talk about their strengths, but don't like to admit that they have weaknesses. I disagree with Marcus Buckingham, the co-author of Now, Discover Your Strengths, who asserts that the way to achieve goals is to focus on your strengths. This approach may work for some parts of your life, for example, a job that involves one or two highly specialized skill sets, such as an accountant or a computer programmer. But most aspects of life require a constellation of competencies, so the "focus on your strengths" model will actually limit your ability to make substantial changes in your life.

Think of your strengths and weaknesses for getting promoted in a new job in, say, banking, as a mathematical equation. On a scale of one to ten, where 1 is very poor and 10 is the best, if you have very good financial analysis skills (8), but you are quite poor at relationship building (2), then your over-all performance would be moderate (8+2=10 out of a possible 20). If you focused on and improve your analytical capabilities (say, from 8 to 9), you wouldn't improve that much over all because you were already capable in that area of your work (9+2=11). But if you improve your relationship skills (say, from 2 to 6), then your over-all performance would rise significantly (8+6=14). Of course, you want to continue to build your strengths, but the more you improve your weaknesses, the better you'll be able to make the changes you want.

Then there was this post by Marc Andreessen where he talked about career planning, he said to focus on continuously developing and broadening your base of skills. He cites 5 skills as examples: communication, management, sales, finance and international.

http://pmarca-archive.posterous.com/the-pmarca-guide-to-career-planning-part-2-sk

Anybody have thoughts on talents, strengths, building skills and how one should go about it ?
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I think the issue isn't about Zynga, but more about "Why should I bother going from Facebook to Google+ when they both have the same games?"

It would be like buying a PS3 to play Call of Duty, when you already own an Xbox 360.
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I think you underestimate the necessity for reliable support, especially in some sectors.

E.g. for Telcos, where any outages must be fixed within specified (short) timescales in order to be allowed to sell telco service. It's less risk for a business to say we pay X per year, and if the shit hits the fan we can just pick up the phone.

The other thing offered by RH is to say: here is a distro, we've tested it and can sign off on it being stable. That is also worth a lot in some sectors.
I did mention those benefits in passing: "for excellent reasons involving security and malware". I don't disagree that this can provide those benefits; I just don't feel that they're worth the cost to me, personally. Also, I don't have any notion of how they could provide what I and other technically savvy people want and what the main base of computer users need at the same time.
Obviously product based feedback is "better" on some levels, but it can get in the way of learning the answer to some questions quickly I'd much rather just get the answer quickly ;-)

As I play with experiment/hypothesis model I'm more convinced that increments-of-learning rather than increments-of-product help me more - at the early stages anyway. Since many of the folk I talk to seem to be really bad at validating business questions via early customer contact I think there's an opportunity for external folk to come in and help.

I'm really interested to see what agencies like Proof (http://proof-nyc.com/) organise themselves and their work with clients. I know my relationship with some clients is more like design/UX coaching rather than more traditional agency type work.
Oh come on, how could you ever be shocked by what is commonly known as "the oldest profession"?

I'm not saying it's a nice job, but neither it is fixing sewage pipes. You should be shocked that pimps exist, maybe, but then again their role is quite natural and I'm sure some of them are quite the professional. The massive amount of abuse surrounding the "industry" is a problem, but it's hardly the only industry where management can abuse the workforce.
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I think that in this article Steve discounts the effect of actually doing the math for yourself. It's comparatively easy to read about something and think that you've understood it. It's another thing entirely to be able to do that math on paper and get the 'correct' answer without needing help.