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Never for programming related stuff. The only Facebook product I use is the messenger app on android which sort of doubles as chat. Everything else is a timesink.
Yeah, the answers are really leading the responses. There is a wide gap between "it's where I do everything" and "I would never show my face there".
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Is it the HN version of "go kill yourself" that intelligent people should use?
I had this same feeling while living in Nepal. Nepal is about on par with Uganda according to the HDI but the people there seem much happier in their day to day lives.
I talk about the value of the dollar, when the author takes the metric 2.00$ this is relevant. The official inflation rate is in almost all cases totally wrong, because it takes way too few factors into account. This is a separate topic, how the inflation should be calculated. I think just that currency exchange rates are a better way to predict inflation trends.
This is the most ridiculous thing I've seen on HN. I'm curious, how much karma does one need to downvote threads?

edit: For clarification purposes, the question might itself be interesting: How does the facebook usage of hackers compare to that of the general populous. However, "FaceBook is how I find out about programming stuff" detracts from the objectiveness, and makes the whole thing pointless.
The O'Reilly Nutshell books are very good at teaching you just enough to get going in a new language if you have some kind of programming experience in another language.
I bought Code Complete on a recommendation, and I find that most of it is stuff I've already picked up after programming for about 10 years.
You can turn that entirely off (I did as it's way more likely to be some celebrity than anything of interest to me) by going in to the "What's Hot" circle (choose it from the left side list of circles) and then adjusting the slider (at the top of the main pane.

http://i41.tinypic.com/10wmype.png
I find it hard to believe that you read his original 'venting'. He's complaining about the need for root permissions to connect to a printer. It was about his daughter and the school network.
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"Researchers were puzzled"... - I doubt they were, "Softpedia". This is entirely expected and in line with all previous results. For example http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2952

That's not to say it was a waste by any means - the techniques used will hopefully be useful to other scientists, and confirmation is always good :)
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Yep. In this circumstance it appears they simply forgot to check the box which I've since updated.

We are looking at different methods for job posting so today is a big learning curve for us!
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Does it have "smart" word wrapping like Sublime Text 2? I think it is one of the killer features for me. I sometimes need to work with a small screen and need word-wrapping on.
Ok thanks. This is good info regarding the size of the traffic to expect.

The reason I would like to get coverage from startup blogs is because my startup makes a tool for startup founders. I'm hoping that the people who read these blogs are my market demographic.

The startup in question: http://domiy.com
I recommend to read Brain Rules by John Medina. http://www.brainrules.net/.

He explains in really simple way how brain works and what is best for brain to keep evolving and getting smarter.
One of the rules:
Sleep well - think well
Can someone please explain why this happens? I understand that for electrons, photons (or any fundamental particle?) there is a duality, but when you get a molecule, in my mind, it's now a thing, like a cat or a person. I know that if I did the double slit experiment with a people or cats I'd get a different result. Why do these molecules not behave like cats being thrown at a slit.
I don't think so. If there are only programming and tech jobs on the site then the name is perfect.
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I've never read that book, but I've worked with a lot of C. That code seems perfectly maintainable as an experienced C programmer.

- Confusing function explanation in a custom format. What is nameval? What is nvtab?

nvtab is obviously a name/value table. nameval is an array of Nameval structures. nval is the count of Nameval structures in nvtab.nameval.

- Missing curly braces in the for loop

This isn't required by C. It's an often-debated subject in style guides for C.

- Confusing long lines (line starting with memmove())

How is that confusing? Lines end when you see a ; that isn't inside a set of parens.

- Confusing inline transformations: nvtab.nameval+i+1, nvtab.nval-(i+1) directly in function arguments. What do they mean?

What do you mean, "what do they mean"? (int)-((int)+1) seems pretty obvious. Working with memory addresses doesn't seem a foreign concept.

- Bad, bad naming (nvtab, nameval)

nvtab seems like a reasonable name for a name value table.
nameval seems like a reasonable name for something that holds a bunch of Nameval structs.

- Inconsistent case (nameval vs Nameval)

nameval and Nameval are different. If you used consistent case, the program wouldn't work. nameval is an array containing Namevals. Nameval is a struct.

This just seems like a case of you not really understanding C rather than a case of experienced C programmers writing C that other C programmers could maintain.
Thanks for this list.
All Microsoft contests are like that, just promotional. They choose the winner according to what they think will look better for Microsoft itself.

I participated in the Imagine Cup a few years ago when I was finishing college and our project was technically light-years ahead of the others. We got only the 3rd place. Two ridiculous web app-like gimmicks were 1st and 2nd. Oh and the guy in 5th place clearly deserved the 2nd place.

Even though I knew what it would be like beforehand, I have to admit I didn't anticipate getting screwed so badly. Our project was so cool there was no way it couldn't win, right? apparently not, Microsoft has no shame. It left a bitter aftertaste. On the other hand, I liked the 3rd place prize better than the 1st prize :)
I have The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, and it's an inspiring read. Which other books would you recommend for developers?
He may not be a programmer by day, but he certainly has the mentality of one. This definitely is not the kind of macro that can be recorded and works immediately. For someone who is a "non-programmer" it's pretty impressive to figure out how to use nested loops for such an obscure task. How has nobody mentioned how cool this is?!

VBA is an awesome tool. It has saved me hundreds of hours of tedious calculations and copy/pasting sessions.
It makes me wonder, is speed a factor? How fast are they traveling?
Www.mpsy.com
I have had a few visits to my blog from this URL. I have never visited this site before today. I don't think there is anything on my site that might interest them. How can I find out if some one has installed mspy on my iphone?
I second The Practice of Programming. I was also forced to read Pragmatic Programmer for a class in school, I was happy to find that this review sums up my thoughts perfectly about that: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3KBSGSQDBND0N/ref=cm_cr_pr_per...

Another commenter mentioned SICP, I'd add Let Over Lambda and On Lisp which while I haven't read cover to cover I've enjoyed every section I've read so far...

In the end I don't really agree with the author's conclusions that we shouldn't recommend books we haven't read at all. Passing on recommendations of others is defensible--after all, if someone asks for a recommendation they usually want one, not a response of "I don't know" or "Go do your own research!"
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Don't be afraid to discount some of those stories as bravado and self-aggrandizing reports. (see: the Four Yorkshiremen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo )
No one can explain this currently.
Pretty sure that started happening a while ago.

Here's one from 2010. http://www.freelancewritinggigs.com/2010/03/how-i-improved-p...
This is one of the very few (tech) books I read cover to cover (plus the stuff chapters on disk). If you are intressted in everything from machine up to programming language this is the book for you.
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When I worked at Google I was blown away by their attention to readability. It makes sense when they preach that any employee (having passed readability for a given language) can commit code to any project. What surprised me most? Extra spaces. After parens, brackets -- anywhere midline you can. This makes it easier to read any line of code and scan the whole document. Of course, they compile and minimize everything before it runs in production.
Maybe, probably both, but his approach to create popular movies around is the most intelligent way.

Earth was a failure and if something similar with that budget will be made soon is questionable.

Budget: €30,000,000 (estimated)

Gross: $32,001,863

Cameron can do anything he want's with any budget since decades and earned himself a fortune to do things on his own.
I spent the weekend playing with ClojureScript One, and this line really stood out for me:

"Moreover, JS is really fast to write and test. Write – save – refresh[2]; it’s an absurdly fast dev cycle that lets me iterate on questionable portions of the code much faster than any environment I’ve worked in."

With ClojureScript and Emacs, this cycle is replaced with "write - C-x C-e" (For the unfamiliar, Ctrl-x Ctrl-e sends the Lisp form immediately before the cursor to the compiler, and sends the resulting JavaScript to the browser for execution. It lets you evaluate bits of code directly from your editing buffer. It's the classic Lisp and Emacs set up and it's fantastic.)

Is there no browser-connected REPL for regular-ole JavaScript? I don't know the details of the ClojureScript implementation, but I would imagine you could hack it up to use plain JS. I'm sure I sound like a smug Lisp weenie, but actually I'm just hoping that this does exist in case I ever have to use regular JS.

edit I found something call mozrepl but this seems specific to Firefox. https://github.com/bard/mozrepl/wiki/Emacs-integration
Indeed I hadn't -- Edis doesn't rank highly for searches involving "LevelDB + Redis" which could be how it avoided me for so long. This sounds like what I envisioned, so I'll be looking at it with a keen interest =] The real question is how they implemented the encoding of the Redis data structures into the LevelDB SSTable format and the implications that will have on performance. If the Github issues are any indication it's an interesting proof of concept but hasn't been used or tested widely yet[1]. Along those lines, leveldb-server also looks interesting as a simple (API) and easy to install LevelDB backed DB.

[1]: https://github.com/inaka/edis/issues/2 [2]: https://github.com/srinikom/leveldb-server
Ask HN: Why don't we have downloadable webapps?
I was wondering why i haven't noticed any downloadable webapps. What i mean by downloadable is for example a CRM software (highrise) that you can download and install on your server (like wordpress) rather than paying monthly. Any thoughts?
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Very cool... but 10-12 FPS is disappointing.
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I worked with Arlo on the team at Silver Platter. "Promiscuous pairing" was mostly great, and sometimes awful. Achieving flow was not very hard at all; when you have small-ish tasks and 4 pairs constantly swapping, productivity is almost guaranteed. It was exhilarating.

It was also exhausting. Sometimes it's nice just to have your own brain and work things out; ideally, I'd like to do pair programming in much the same way, but maybe with one day off during the week for solo projects.

Ultimately, though, our team failed, because we completely ignored the most important tenet of XP/Agile: the Customer. We didn't have one, and we didn't find one.

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How much time did you lost over figuring out the recipe and scripting it?

Before I heard about configuration management, I had bash scripts to configure my server from clean state. I tried it locally hundreds of times to get every command right.
Sublime Text 2, it's cross platform, beautiful, and has wicked shortcuts.
What Miyamoto Musashi seems to be the fluffy inspirational type, rather than a serious reflection on how to achieve things.
Also to add to Peroni - you can scrape recruitment sites (monster, gumtree, craigslist), get in touch with the relevant company asking if you can copy the job over to your site.

Most don't mind, and some are even happy if they do get a good applicant through your website instead of wherever they had initially posted their vacancy.

Just make sure there's no effort on their part, nor any hidden fees and they aren't signed up to your newsletter unless they specifically asked to be.

A mixture of scraping and contacts got us around 500 vacancies to launch qreer.com.
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I have been hacking on ClojureScript recently as well (spent the weekend playing with ClojureScript One also!), but I am not an Emacs user (I use Vim). Can you explain the part about sending JavaScript to the browser without refresh from a normal repl (lein repl)? I see this advertised by ClojureScript but not an explanation as to how it works (probably assuming experienced lispers). My method for working has been save, ctrl+tab to browser, ctrl+f5 to refresh.
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Companies must be having success targeting ads to programmers and mathematicians on Facebook, because for the last several years, all 4 of my Facebook ads have always been filled with IT, programming, and math.

Here's a screenshot of my Facebook ads right now:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/58785/FBAds-20120326.PNG
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I have only actually used about a dozen of these languages so out of those my least favorite would be a tie between Java and ColdFusion. I supposed it's only fitting that ColdFusion is actually Java underneath. Java is too verbose and overly complicated especially when you try to use it for web apps.
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Do you know what kind of auto-completing Google should really halt? Spoilers. Do not type Game of Thrones character names on Google.

EDIT. I'm really, really sorry. I didn't mean to spoil by implying that there are spoilers. I removed the character name.
"'If you talk to the community, maybe 50 percent would say this is normal because it's quantum physics, and the other 50 percent would really scratch their heads because it's quantum physics,' adds the scientist, who was one of the leaders on the new project."

Quote of the year.
As a side note, does anyone have any good examples of Javascript being used as a scripting language? I keep meaning to learn Javascript, but I don't do any web programming, and it always seems like I'd have to learn a lot of DOM and other browser-specific callouts to do anything with it.

I keep thinking that Javascript would work okay for things that I'd normally try Lua for (or Guile, if I'm feeling ornery), but I've never seen anyone actually doing it. The existing implementations all seem very heavy-weight.
Hey, why don't you create an "AskHN review my startup" post? I'm sure there will be many people giving you valuable feedback and if your are lucky enough to cross the threshold you may end up on the home page.
I ran OpenSolaris on the desktop for a little while. That experiment lasted only about two weeks before I gave up due to various things just not working correctly.

I wonder if things are any different with Solaris 11, or more likely I'd be running OpenIndiana which so far has worked really well for the server work I have it doing.
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Durability through replication should probably be mentioned as well; either to address performance requirements, or to provide stronger durability against hardware failure.
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I get about that on my iPhone 4, but with Firefox on my MBP it looks great and is silky smooth.
I'm not a physicist, but I thought that the matter-wave duality applied to all "isolated" particles, it just completely dominates things at the scale of subatomic particles:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter_wave
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Thank you Peroni, DancesDrunk. I did not come from a recruitment background so I'd really appreciate the suggestions.
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Was it established that Quora stopped using PyPy? My impression was that more parts of the stack are now being written in Scala:

http://www.quora.com/Is-the-Quora-team-considering-adopting-...

"Yes, we're using Scala for some projects at Quora, both big and small. As a programming language, it offers the following advantages: fast, concise, type-safe, object-oriented yet functional, easy parallelism, extensible and built on the JVM. It is also gaining more adoption in the industry and thus getting more support. At Quora, we'll choose the best tools and stack for the product we're building, and that includes our language choices at times."
I think that's got more to do with your computer and/or browser-of-choice than anything. I have to shoot 10+ fireworks at once, with `partCount` at 500+ in order to get below 20fps.

I wish I could make the launch of the firework a bit more realistic; it shouldn't accelerate against gravity. Maybe I just need to play with the settings a bit more, though I can't set an acceleration value less than 1.
Honestly, this can actually be a PITA to set up for vanilla ClojureScript apps because the order of steps is very important, and one of the rad things about ClojureScript One for beginners (myself included) is that it's seems much easier to get working, so if you're not an Emacs user to begin with, I would clone ClojureScript One and follow along to try it out. There are some nice scripts and Clojure code meant for dev-time that come with it that smooth out the edges a bit.

But in general, you have to set up your inferior-lisp-program in Emacs with the shell script desribed here: https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript/wiki/Emacs-%26-infe... (for ClojureScript One, it suffices to use "lein repl" as your inf-lisp.)

Then you need to (:require [clojure.browser.repl :as repl) in your ns, and run (repl/repl "http://localhost:9000 ") (there's a space here to prevent HN from swallowing the close-quote, but it shouldn't be there) at the beginning of your ClojureScript app.

Start the REPL in Emacs (M-x inferior-lisp RET, ie press Alt-x, type "inferior-lisp", hit return) and then open the browser and point it at your app. Test it by typing (js/alert) in Emacs. Then, when you're in a ClojureScript buffer (or any Lisp buffer, I think) C-x C-e will send the form before the point to the REPL, which is actually connected to the browser.

I'll leave setting it up for Vim as an exercise for the reader (kidding, kind of, I just don't have any idea if any one has worked on this yet, although there are Vim modes for regular Clojure, so maybe)
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Its good to finishes projects, but its also important to realize that some projects can't ever be finished, or may not be worth the effort of completing them. That's not to say one should drop a project when it gets hard or to think your self out of completing it, but more to the idea of being reasonable about expectations while still trying your hardest.
Anti-copyright group ...

The site is called Hollywoodreporter, no surprise.

If anybody ist interested: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,823738,00...

The core discourse is about civil liberties and resentment with the old parties.
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The idea is to let users maintain a portable database of very strong passwords. Since the credentials are transfered when the QR code is scanned the user doesn't need to remember or enter a complex password. It also eliminates worries about keyloggers since no information is typed.
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When glancing through the book, I noticed the brief section on the Monty Hall problem. When I first heard about the problem, my immediate reaction was to simulate it, which is exactly what this book suggests doing. For those inclined to approach problems this way, I think this book could be very helpful in teaching baseline statistics.

One of the things that bugged me about my college stats class was that it was taught at such a low-level. The material never advanced to a point to where I felt I was learning things that could be resourceful down the line. Instead of immediately jumping into Excel or SPSS datasets and doing meaningful things with them, we were busy doing stats exercises by-hand, which seems like such a waste of time. Sure, you have to know what the various elements mean, but do you really need to know the nuts and bolts of it, when in actually, you're going to be using a computer to do it anyway?
I think you need some more features, otherwise this is just a nicer looking shared google docs.

http://www.leandomainsearch.com has been adding some filters, but I would like to see the ability to permanently remove certain terms we would never use.
Has anyone tried the experiment with something obviously larger and not quantum-scale, such as table tennis balls?

(Search finds lots of pages using table tennis balls as a help for visualising atoms or electrons or molecules.)

Here's a page (with many puns) about what you'd need to try the experiment with cats.

(http://www.askamathematician.com/2010/12/q-can-you-do-the-do...)
Mike Tigas made a PyPy buildpack for Heroku:

http://github.com/mtigas/heroku-buildpack-pypy/

Here's his blog post about it:

http://v3.mike.tig.as/blog/2012/02/13/pypy-on-heroku/

I haven't used it on a serious project yet, but it was pretty easy to work with.
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Have you considered doing the opposite - charging applicants a minor fee per application?
If they tried with a large enough object I wonder if they could film it going through the slits, like with a high-speed camera. I guess individual molecules can't be photographed without an electron microscope though.
Day 1 and there's jobs listed in Newcastle upon Tyne, Huddersfield and Birmingham. I'm absolutely gobsmacked. More of this please. It looks like you're already aware, but just to re-inforce the point: once the number of jobs is too large to comfortably browser, then for people outside of London, sites like this will live or die based on their location specific search. (Around here, Jobserve is a big deal for precisely that reason - they eventually even managed to distinguish between Newcastle upon Tyne and Newcastle-under-Lyme.)