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I disagree as an American heterosexual guy who has many female friends.

It works the same way any friendship works with the same sex for heterosexual men. I have positively no desire to sleep with my closest male friends, but they are my friends because we challenge each other, support each other or just otherwise get along and have similar interests (preach to the choir to each other).

Of my female friends, my emotional/sexual desire ranges. I opt for transparency. I don't do booty calls or casual sex because it doesn't work for me. But I have admitted my feelings to several of my female friends (both as "I'm not interested in anything other than a platonic relationship" to get it off the table and the opposite). In one case I dated a close friend for a short stint, and in almost all of the others my feelings were not reciprocated (I think American women where I live anyway don't see long term friends as sexual objects as I have no problems attracting good looking women that are otherwise strangers -- topic for another reply). In all cases, sharing my emotional/sexual feelings strengthened the friendship after a short period of awkwardness. It simply takes the issue off the table.
Object.create does not even work in most browsers!
So you cannot even use the preferred solution in todays most popular browsers:

http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?year=2011&month...

http://kangax.github.com/es5-compat-table/

and you really dont expect anyone to write clunky property descriptors like this??

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global...
Egads! Just what I have been waiting for!

Emacs really sweet, but I think that, as it is commonly said with Lisps, its problems are largely social, not technological. As such, the community could really use some social solutions.
NewVem sees a massive opportunity to help companies cut costs and avoid the costly overhead of hiring a full time IT staffer to manage the cloud.

Makes no sense. If you're using cloud-resources then you probably already have an IT staffer on the payroll.

The hard part is not detecting when you're over-/under-provisioned. The hard part is implementing the actual automation beyond "start/stop an instance".
> Even funnier: Let's tell the President to stand in the way of the legal, sovereign bill writing by our duly elected Congress.

This is not actually that absurd. The threat of a veto is often enough to stop a bill from moving forward through Congress. Clearly there are political considerations with issuing such a threat, but it is fairly reasonable to assume that the President could greatly influence a bill while it was still in Congress.
With firefox, view->page style->no style
As someone who gave up on yesod because it is so railsish and moved to snap, I'd say it is pretty accurate.
I disagree with pretty much all his points, especially the requirement for an IDE.
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Even if Bill Gates wanted to do this, he doesn't own a controlling stake of Microsoft or anything near it, so it's not like he can just go around reinstating himself as CEO whenever he pleases.
Glad you added "at least not yet". We have seen him starting illegal wars, providing false documents to congress, approving shady deals in regards to government subsidies, shoving illegal and unlawful laws in our throats, and last but not least, trying to influence the highest court in US through news-media.

So I am sure there is still some room left.
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Awesome! I love Lua and I love integrating it into everything I do. I'll get some use out of this.
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You might also be a little biased being a yesod developer and all. For what it is worth, I found both the happstack and snap communities far more helpful. Yesod makes a ton of assumptions, and questioning those assumptions was met with "just start liking what I like".
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> I can see what you describe being the norm in a large city. Where I live now - small town, middle of inner-nowhere - it's not.

Not to be an ass, but to recap your "rebuttal": in the places which are dying this isn't the case, but I could see it happening in the places that are becoming increasingly prevalent and important it might be.

I think the change is undeniable, you're just in one of the last places that will get hit.
It's three years into Obama's term. Have you really not figured out he's not particularly "on your side" on this topic? He's pretty happy to lay down more regulations on almost any topic and either doesn't understand, doesn't care, or considers a feature that this further entrenches large, established interests who are the only ones who can meet the new, higher bars, based on the evidence. You really think he's going to regulate, regulate, regulate across the board, but wait, not those nice people on the Internet, we'll leave them be?
I've had an AMEX Gold “Open” card ($75/yr) for close to ten years. I don't recall the exact details about the sign-up process, they asked for information about my business (consulting) how long it had been active (a couple of months) and my expected use. It isn't a credit card per se, you have to pay the balance off every month. After about a year of good use/payment cycles they may offer you "sign and travel", which lets you effectively use it as a credit card (with a pretty hefty APR, IIRC 19%). They also have a credit card version now but it costs more ($300/yr) and I've never had the need to change to it.

I also have a Capital One credit card which as far as I can tell I got by having had a North Fork Bank account for years before Capital One bought them.
Black on yellow seems to hurt my eyes. I'm not sure its a good choice.
Hi @almost, I haven't gotten that far yet. But I tweet as @dotemacs on Twitter, so that might be a good temporary step.

Also the codebase for the site is here:

https://github.com/dotemacs/emacsconf/

so, maybe somebody can add what they'd like, such as a RSS feed...
The differential. It's an operator meaning "infinitely small slice of ..."

Since the Integral symbol represents an infinite sum, Integral( (f(x)*dx) ) is an infinite sum of infinitely small x-wise slices of f(x), thus giving you the area under the curve f(x).
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So Scala ranks behind the Lego Mindstorms language and Visual FoxPro in terms of community popularity? Sure thing. I know that valid results don't always conform to expectations, anecdotal evidence and intuition; there's a believability limit, though, which is being crossed here. TIOBE may be measuring its thing correctly, but in that case it's measuring the wrong thing.
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this only makes sense if its recurring income(i.e. subscriptions) and if you aren't depending on any other service for that income.

if your $5K/mo comes mostly from Google traffic you can lose everything overnight.

i.e. I have a friend who had an affiliate site that was generating $20K/mo. Then the Google Panda update happened, and that went down to $1K overnight(well it took a few weeks). Last month that site generated a whopping $24 in revenue.

Google tends to be the biggest threat here.

Traffic? Can't lose out in Google search results.

Ad Revenue? Can't get banned from adsense(impossible...since all it takes is a competitor clicking a bunch of times on your ads)

Paid Traffic? Can't get banned from adwords...which can change their policies at any time.

Payments? Can't get banned by PayPal.

Basically what I'm trying to say, is that there is a TON of risk. And you need a huge cushion to feel comfortable. Personally I'd want a $30K/mo income in order to have a $4-5K/mo lifestyle...just to be on the safe side. To at least avoid the stress...that everything can be lost overnight.

That's why these big payouts should be preferable...since then there is no more risk(short of losing it all in financial crash)
It all boils down to maintainability.
In my experience the minimalist approach solves much of the complexity of JS by eliminating some features that are not required (performance might be an issue but never had any problems with it in practice).

So why am I not allowed to share something that works just because it may not fully comply with the 'preferred javascript style culture'?

What is this about?
The comment about "For Dummies" irks me.

I was the main author on a For Dummies book and the whole point is to provide step by step actions to guide a complete newbie through the procedure. It's intentionally done that way because that's what the audience wants. They don't want to read it cover to cover, they want to pick up the book, open it to the section called "Installing a wireless network card for Windows Vista" and follow the instructions. When they want to read sections, they want to read something that speaks to them, not something that assumes they've read it all up to that point.

Technical books may have failed a certain segment of the population (I agree with many of his points if I look at it from my own perspective), but I know a lot of technical authors who make a fine living writing books, which means that people are buying them.
DZone has a large set of professional cheat sheets called Refcardz, including HTML5, CSS, and jQuery. http://refcardz.dzone.com

Also check out http://cheatsheets.org/
yeah agreed - way easier to type what you want than scan like 10 pages to try to find it
What were the problems you saw in Hamlet?
I am certainly biased, but these are all objective measurements. I am not claiming that the Yesod community is better, just that it is more active. I am sorry you didn't have a good experience. If you can point to specifics of inflexibility that can help us re-think our design.
My bad I stopped reading too soon. So maybe just using a different verb than 'is' would be enough to avoid confusion. (and yes I was on the cc-mode customization page)
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Firearms kill people by accident. Often.

Hacking tools don't kill people. And they rarely hack into a system by accident.
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I got > 90% of the subscribers from SEO over the course of 2 years. The growth rate of those subscribers has dwindled ever since my sites got punished by Google Panda.

For those curious, the newsletter has to do with a very niche product that people usually order every single month. I'm simply an affiliate and write a newsletter with tips for that product along with a coupon code.

The affiliate program is pretty friendly as I get paid a commission every month even if I don't get them a new customer (but get an existing customer to order it through my link).
Hey iuguy, how cool. Just the other day a read a post on how 44con came to be. Great reading. I'll definitely get in touch with you later today. For now, you can reach me as @dotemacs on twitter. Thanks for the offer & support!
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Funny, the conference isn't even planned, yet it taught me the existence of Ecukes (cucumber for emacs). awesome
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What does a music conductor do?
What makes it difficult to "really comprehend monads"? Why did it take two months for you to really comprehend them?
The Fundamentals category seems to be the only one really making sense. These are more about why than how, and age generally much better. Blog posts appear as ideal, with easy copy-and-paste of code, updateability and linking to more in-depth references and other tutorials.

I wonder if something like the pull requests of GitHub could be meshed with a literate programming tool (for easy extraction of source code from document) to produce the ultimate, sustainable tutorial infrastructure
Yes, and in other news:

While Aquarius is in the Seventh House of the Principal Equinox and Jupiter is aligned with Mercury and Thor is napping in the Trunk of a Ford Pinto, Java shall tremble at the Sight of the Blood running down the walls of Fear, for Clojure shall overcome Mindstorms when the Adjudicated Maximus crosses the Greater Chaotic Plane, and BOFH's everywhere shall rejoice! Ia, Ia!!! Chtulu Fthagn!!

(IOW, no, I don't put much stock in the Tiobe index.)
> guns are not a good example. there is no way i can use a gun for constructive purpose.

That tells us more about you than it says about guns. It says is that you're either ignorant or a thug.

We can easily distinguish the two. How many people have you assaulted? If 0, you don't know that folks who use guns criminally have a history of other criminality. If not...

> think of a knife. 99.99% use the knife for good reasons.

That's true of guns as well.
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I work on a code review tool, and we've been shipping patience diff for a few years now, and it has really cut down on complaints about the resulting diff being incomprehensible, and on the one or two occasions people have complained its been really easy to point at the data explain why - and that has always been because there was a "missed opportunity to write better code" or a big pile of copy-pasta.

I know its sort of a silly argument to make, but LCS's algorithmic intiution leaves me cold.
> Yesod puts the most effort into marketing

How is this the case? Compare http://yesodweb.com and http://snapframework.com/ and tell me you really believe that the yesod guys are marketers?

> persistent isn't mature enough to use with an RDBMS backend.

How so? Also, Persistent is still at 0.9, so the version number would agree. Any persistence layer you use with Snap or Happstack is just as easy to use in Yesod too.

> Snap has a better web server underlying it

Again, how so?
If you were Angelina Jolie's neighbor and ran into her a couple times a day, then yes, you would stop being attracted to her eventually.

That's partly because you're attracted to a cartoon. A star's media image is very carefully crafted. People like that are much less impressive in person.

And that's partly because Lazare is right. You can be eternally attracted to a media image because there's a broken feedback loop. If you were displaying your attraction to an actual person, you'd be getting either positive or negative feedback. Eventually things would either heat up or cool down.

Think about all the people you know that you once felt strong sexual attraction for. How many of them do you still feel that way about? For me, the percentage is tiny.
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VC in Canada over the next 5 years
Pet peeve, It's "farther."
I could see a market for information like that. Some form of subscription service, where current Flippa auctions are evaluated on the basis of M&A factors.
in the places which are dying

In what sense do you mean 'dying'? 'Prevalent and important'?
As someone who loves yesod, this feels kind of accurate, but I don't see it as a bad thing. Yesod is what a type-safe Rails should look like.
Great idea. Great design.
None. Zero. My wife has quite a few close male friends, and I feel absolutely no threat from any of them. She's a snuggler, and semi-consciously leans on anyone in the vicinity when we're all around watching a movie or something. Usually that's me, but not always.

Why should I feel threatened about this? This relationship isn't a game to be won, and they aren't my competitors.
I understand, simply stating an ideology.
First thing I thought: the gold needs to be golder.

Maybe try purple for royalty.
Thanks for the input, I have changed the headline.
Hi, OP here. As explained that message happens when you mess something up in the C++ bindings, not because of JavaScript actually running out of memory.
Ask HN: Need advice -- part-time founding team
I am frustrated with my startup's structure. I need help seeing if I'm offbase here and what HN feels about this situation. The gist of the problem is that most of the company's equity is divided amongst cofounders who mostly help us, if we're lucky, 10 hours a week. The two of us who are full-time, 60+ hours/week, each only have 15/20% of the company. We are fully incorporated, launching a product now, and have a small angel investment (no real investor dilution yet).

The company was founded by six people who (so I hear) worked weekends for months getting a Wordpress prototype together and fleshing out an idea. I was brought on six months ago as a technical cofounder because they were struggling building the product backend, and since then we've built two complete products. However, since I've joined six months ago I've never really seen people work hard at all, except one day a week when we all meet which people skip half the time due to school or just not wanting to come. To rub salt in the wound, none of the part-time cofounders want to join us full-time once they graduate, or even just help out more over the summer as opposed to an internship elsewhere.

Everyone is vesting, and everyone has clearly breached their contract with us (a paltry 10 hrs/week). My cofounder argues that they took great risk spending months of weekends working on this before I joined, and that having them on board is better than nothing and provides some value. He says later if necessary we could dilute their shares, since everyone would agree they haven't been working as hard.

I favor offering fulltime positions with a small stipend (like my full-time partner and I) and stop everyone's vesting ASAP otherwise. My full-time cofounder and I are just hurting our own financial positions. It just isn't fair for people who spend barely a day a week on this to reap almost the same reward. Even if we don't redivide the equity, we could better use it by attracting someone really talented full-time.

Any advice on this would be amazing. I either just can't seem to get through to my cofounder, or my reasoning must be completely offbase. Thank you all in advance!
Well done, I dig this style much more than their current design.
A very poignant piece and a reminder that pursuing goals by doing what you enjoy is more important than actually reaching the goal.
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You're saying that in America sexual desire is repressed? No, never! http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120406234458.ht...
Thanks for your feedback. I think the integrations with other services (Yahoo/CBS/ESPN) would be great as would be the customized recommendations.

I think the first thing I'll add is the projections, because that seems to be meaningful to a lot of people.
Ugh. Spoken like a true Ravens fan.

In all seriousness, yeah. Gilt went from black/yellow to predominantly black/white for a good reason.

I do like how the yellow pops though. Unfortunately, it also makes my eyes bleed. Maybe try a duller yellow, like goldenrod. My emacs theme is goldenrod on dark gray and it is pleasant.
That would be a huge sales point for them.

Are you serious? Since when a shopper gives a damn about how his/her product is made? If that is the case, walmart would not be as big and profitable as they are today. No shopper (or very negligible amount of shoppers) cares about any of these. All they care about is low price, coupons, discounts and deals. How else would a company like Groupon could become so big, so quickly?
Hi, OP here. For folks who prefer HTML5 APIs, I'm also working on a layer that translates these Qt APIs into HTML5 primitives (like Canvas and AudioContext):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3816870

(There are some neat demos there :))
We have talked about expanding. Our first thought was we would just build this simple app, then we found out that other cities have some sort of a grading systems. So if all works well for NYC, then I see no reason to not expand.
It would strongly violate my expectations for Scala to be more popular than LabVIEW (which is NOT just "the Lego Mindstorms language") or Visual FoxPro.

The "community" they're measuring is not the HN community, which is not even close to a representative sample of engineers worldwide.
And your basis for generalizing sweepingly about all of humanity is...
I agree with pretty much all his points, except the one about too much syntax.
That's fair. I may have overdone it a bit with the yellow/gold. I might update it in a bit. Thanks for the honest feedback!
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Their methodology is suspect as hell:

"TIOBE Programming Community Index is an indicator of the programming language trends. It is updated monthly, this list is based on the number of experienced programmers,courses and third-party vendors on the Internet. It uses the well-known search engines (such as Google, MSN, Yahoo) as well as Wikipedia and YouTube to calculate the ranking."

Frankly that doesn't sound like a proper method to determine a ranking of anything, let alone programming languages.
Personally, I can't stand the "lets mix code and markup" style of template systems in general, which includes most templates. I also hated the indentation system, it just doesn't work well in markup heavy templating. I'm fine with indentation in programming (obviously given that we're talking about haskell), but it drove me nuts in templates as I had to indent far too much, it isn't simple blocks of code being indented, it is "indent everything that is inside something else", which is of course everything.

I found it was just as ugly and awkward as JSP/ASP/PHP, but with the added detriment of forcing me to use indentation where I didn't want it to make it look even less clear, and no closing tags so existing tools look at it and puke. I actually like syntax highlighting. I am atypical I think in that I like zope/lift/heist templates where the template is just pure HTML, and it calls out to "snippets" of code to do anything dynamic. But given the indentation issue, I'd sooner use JSP than hamlet.
I think you may be re-enforcing what I said. You came with a different pre-conception about what templates should be and didn't use Hamlet for a long period of time.

On the other hand, it seems you are very adamant that you must type your own closing tags rather than have the template language ensure they are correct through indentation.

Our goal is not to make every single developer happy. If you don't appreciate DRY & reduced errors (improper closing tags in this case), Yesod is certainly not for you, no matter what template language you used.
I agree that leaving the core technical decisions to folks that don't have skin in the game is dangerous.
I really like the idea of bartering services. I've done that quite a bit in the past (not for coding but for marketing/graphics/other stuff) and it's an option I think most startups don't explore enough.
I'm curious to know what has happened in the VB.Net community that has encouraged such a huge shift upwards.

Has Windows 8 dropping on the scene encouraged this?
It doesn't "always get it wrong", and in fact most government functions work just fine. Government, like IT infrastructure, becomes invisible when it functions well.
Right on. We all know C has always been the big one :)
The most basic requirement for a healthy societies is reproduction, females are the bottleneck in reproduction so killing both males is least bad in the long run.

If a war was expected in the short run, kill one couple as to forego some reproduction in exchange for a soldier motivated to fight.

Killing the two females would result in two depressed soldiers, so I would only pick this option if I was losing the war badly and needed the two males as cannon fodder - essentially killing all four.
Does anyone have any insight into this? Are you'all getting better results?