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This is pretty important to me too. $50 isn't much at all for something as important as an editor but I don't think I'd consider switching if it wasn't GPL or MIT (or similar).

But of course it's important that they be able to make money too, I wonder how that could work.

Will pledge my $50 later today, I'll probably never switch from Emacs but I do want to see where this goes! Id make it 100 though if they promised to (properly) open source the core and the language plugins. Maybe that could be one of the things promised if they exceed their funding target?
I have three accounts and five computers and I don't find the once-a-month 6-digit number to be a big deal. PayPal does annoy me with their policy of requring an OTP seemingly every time you visit a page, but it's worth it because I know that I don't have to have a super-amazing password to stay safe. Ultimately, the work required to recover from a compromised account is much higher than it is to type a 6-digit number every month, so I consider it a good trade-off.
It's difficult to ignore the big board if you hang it in a public area of the office

If I have more than one up-vote to give... this would get it. I find people really underestimate the value of a physical board setup. I agree that it's a vastly better starting point than online tools for most teams if they're in the same location.
You're confusing structural / nominal typing with first class functions. What Java lacks is the latter, while closures do not depend on the former, which is what you're talking about.

For example, C# supports function types, but it can have hundreds of function types (it calls them delegate types) for a function that takes one int and returns one int:

delegate int Func1(int x);
delegate int Func2(int x);
delegate int Func3(int x);

and so on; all these function types are incompatible with one another.

I believe the distinctive feature of closures is closing over (hence the name) the outer lexical environment and binding to variables in the outer environment, in such a way that those variables are available during evaluation. Which is exactly what an anonymous class lets you have (so long as locals in the outer scope are declared final).
In other news, there are bad people in all sectors of private and public employment.
Business Insider also gets away with phrasing the story in a more authoritative tone. The original in WSJ was littered with phrases like according to several people familiar with the matter.
Etsy specifically prohibits mass production. They make it next to impossible to ever make Kickstarter type money on their website. I suppose that it helps maintain a certain culture overall, but it really sours me on the site as a whole that it pushes away anyone who has any dream of finding real financial success in that world.
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I think its always hard for software kickstarters to offer anything interesting besides the actual product. As you've said, in this case, even merchandise doesn't really make sense.

The only tier, apart from a 15$ software tier(as its been standard), that would make sense to me personally(and financially) would be an option to vote on what language he creates support for first(after he's done with the initial Clojure version).
It should develop the "store" part. It's very frustrating to stumble upon a project that's already funded and for which you don't know where to get the product anymore. It would be a natural extension to let late comers buy products after they were launched.
Nadim Kobeissi created Cryptocat with freedom, not a payout in mind
If you're not getting a pretty constant velocity (if you're going the sprint route) or cycle time (the kanban/flow route) then no tool is going to make that happen.

I confidently predict that if Pivotal is not helping you now, Jira will not help you in the future. What needs to change is how the team works, or maybe management's expectations of the team. Not the tool.
almost as if the contractors became their customers

Capture of government decisionmaking by suppliers (including external suppliers and government employees via their unions) is not so much a bug as it is a feature. (In the sense that it is not an undesirable accidental property of the system, it was the predictable desired results of actions taken by someone(s) with decisionmaking authority, not in the sense that it is socially desirable.)
Using a second factor token is much easier than always doing all of those and provides a much larger safety margin. Remember, with 2-factor auth, even someone who knows your password can't access your account. If you also make sure they don't know your password, you're doubly safe. That's why pretty much every safety system invented has some sort of backup safety protection. If you want to go "free solo" on your account because you enjoy thrills, that's fine. But if you're a normal person, why not have a safety rope?
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A guess only:

The bridge on the left used to be a two way bridge.

They could not construct the bridge right next to it since they would have had to close the original bridge (since it was so close to the new construction).

So the built it off to the side. Once it was built they opened it to traffic (temporarily) presumably to get a head start on converting the nearby roads to match the new traffic flow (which they would need to do anyway).

Then they slid it into place and the new traffic pattern is already set up. They actually could have left it off to the side but that wouldn't match the existing roads as well (too many turns).
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Specialized hardware will be faster than software for a long time. OpenFlow ist smart enough to go around this problem. The routing still takes place in specialized hardware and is therefore just as fast as in a standard device.

The routing layer in hardware acts on a set of cached rules which are very simple. Simplified, you can imagine them to be of the form Matching Rule -> Routing Action. The matching rule selects by the packet fields such as source port or destination IP. The routing actions could be "forward to port" or "drop packet". All of this is just as fast as in every other commodity router.

What is special in OpenFlow is another possibility for the "routing action" field (or for unmatched packets): You can send certain packets up into the software level, to the OpenFlow controller. This can be a centralized server and the logic is implemented in software. The software decides about the routing of these kinds of packets and sends the answer back to the router. Here the rule is cached again and from now on the routing for this is as fast as for all the other packets.

This last bit is the only part which is slower compared to commodity routers. A really great solution in my opinion.
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The author describes changing bid/sell prices based on new information (like a new press release putting pressure on value, say). He doesn't mention whether people are feeding the algos up/down pressure based on these press releases or if they're automatic.

I assume they're at least partially automated. In other words for every article that comes out about a given company, some algo (or human) gives it a plus/minus ranking and magnitude based on what it means for the company.

Assuming this is partially done by algos that crawl press releases looking for signals, or similar (in order to be first to market with latest news) one can imagine a new type of hacking.

Hack the press releases and watch the algo trades go haywire....
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They seem to have individual ones, rather than stage based ones - from the original post:

Once you take a card you “put your face on it” (assign it to yourself). Dev etiquette is that you should never have your face on more than 2 cards at a time: 1 major project and 1 minor.
That's not entirely a fair comparison as Excel contains a complete VB environment.
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The FAQ on the kickstarter page says: "While it is browser-based, it will packaged in a webview of some kind so that it feels like a normal app."
This is hilarious. I can imagine a snarky scale from where you're exactly right, almost exactly right...

"Hey, what do you need me for! That's the answer."

"Glad I'm here. You're off by more than 10%"

"This is not even the right order of magnitude"

"You don't even have the sign right!"

"um, what? This is...not even wrong..."
Nah, I don't buy it. Especially the last bits. I write a technical blog because it is your duty to educate nontechnical users about what you know. The old fable of teaching a man how to catch fish comes to mind. This is never a bad thing, and it makes your job easier!

Contributing to open source projects, user groups, reading books on coding and productivity? How CAN these be pitiable things? I personally think this is a step before being brogrammers, which I loathe.

Let's face it. Being a coder in this brave new world is akin to being a magus in the old times. You know things, you incantate words and verbs only which you and a chosen few understood and you create something out of nether, only real in your mind's eye. And if you deal with information, as they did, you have to convey it. This is something inherent to this craft. You encounter problems with something, you log it; you solve it, you log it. When you share it, many of the people who trod the path will solve the problem, sans the time you spent, and do more. When they encounter something and log it, you will know more. This is a balancing act, nothing more nothing less.

It may be just a job for you, but for me it is an act of creation and more than a job.
>iOS App Store makes 10x Google Play

What does that have to do with the usability of my device? In terms of the app store, I can click a button on my browser and by time I've turned the screen on on my phone, it's done downloading.

>that crap was obsolete the day it came out

What on Earth are you talking about? The Galaxy Nexus (esp since it has ICS) rolls with any of the big dogs in terms of performance (in raw numbers, let alone actual day-to-day usage)

>Galaxy Nexus S 3 Super S v2

Uh, Samsung's rumored to be announcing the S3 in the coming weeks. Like 6 months after the Nexus and a year after the SII. So a pretty typical product upgrade cycle. What's your point anyway. That doesn't make the Galaxy Nexus obsolete.

(it's fun to watch these comments flip back and forth as people come through and downvote in masse)
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You're missing my point; I'm not questioning the decision but the process, the governance. The board is there to represent shareholder interests, if they get bypassed like this on a decision this big, then what is the point of them being there?

I think it was Sergey Brin who recently said something about an investment in Google being a long-term bet on his/Page's decision making. It's like the world has suddenly forgotten why businesses are structured the way they are.

To make an unrelated, more controversial, point: if a CEO can take arbitrary, unilateral decisions, it's difficult to see why they should benefit from the protection of corporate liability.
I'm sorry your experience has been like this. I would argue that you did get a lemon and you should talk to VZW about getting it replaced. Both of the Nexii I had were fine (until I broke one of them :/) and the other hackers in my dorm love theirs as well. I'd recommend at the very least a system restore and then paying attention to what apps you install.

I have one that will happily restart itself and run my GPS down all damn day long. Got rid of it pretty quickly.
May 2013? I can't wait for so long.
404,772 problems, but a paying customer ain't one.
This wasn’t just a one-day, one-hit thing; we’ve been working on it for about four years now.
Sam Altman, who is one of the partners at Y Combinator, has a great bit of advice: Don’t die; don’t let your company die. That’s the key. http://www.communitech.ca/vcs-took-a-pass-on-crowdfunded-peb...
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The miniature airport is in Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg: http://www.miniatur-wunderland.com
World's largest model railway.
Google either "stole" from Oracle or it didn't, what you say doesn't matter much. To play your game, the world might benefit if someone took Google's money (entire $45 billion pile) and invested in vaccines or another cause to help the poor. But that's their money, we don't get to decide for them. The same principle should apply for Oracle or Apple.
Zuckerberg obviously doesn't give a shit what public investors think, and rightly so. You can't lead a world-changing company in growth stage by kowtowing to what "the market" thinks. Instead he will do what he thinks is best for Facebook, and if it works, the stock price will go up, if it doesn't, it will go down.
Close, but I believe both of the bridges in the video are new. Both new ones could be constructed on either side of the old, the old destroyed (semi-surgical demolition, actually much easier without closures if both of the new bridges had been built), and the new one moved in once everything where the old bridge was was ready. There's a lot of information online about the project budgets, proposal, and general construction but I wasn't able to get any specifics from either the DOT or the structural engineers' site to see if they had anything to say about it.
How have you trained your customers to NOT expect estimates?

If you try this sort of thing yourself what you'll often find is that you can get the cycle time of stories (the time from the story going on the board, to the time it gets deployed) to be fairly constant. It can take some work to get top this point, but it's possible and useful in almost all circumstances.

Once you get to this point you can pretty confidently predict that stories are 1week/1month/2months away from getting deployed - and you can use this as the basis you base customer estimates on.

Arlo Belshee coined this style and called it "Disney Line" planning (y'know - like the one-hour wait from this point thing). Arlo has a great video on this sort of approach to planning http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t4bZtnnQJA that might be worth a watch.
Not that this is the case here (indeed, I <3 Karl Seguin), but I find this mantra being used by mediocre developers to cover their ignorance more and more these days.
Yes, learning is more important than knowing, but that doesn't excuse you from knowing, especially the basics. Claim you're a senior web developer, and I expect you to know how to do CSS/JS/HTML. I expect you to have a reasonable idea of how to deploy your app to production. I expect you to know how to write raw sql to get around the leaky abstraction that is your ORM.
The sad truth is that I've interviewed more than enough 'senior developers' who couldn't do any of these things. "I don't know, but I can learn," they say. You've been doing this for five years, shouldn't you have learned these things by now?
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> Reminds me much of channels in Go: http://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#channels

Or producers and consumers in Twisted: http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/core/howto/produc...
Haven't we reached the point yet where the whole idea of IQ testing is pretty discredited? And adjusting for IQ, meaning that someone is smart therefore they are expected to earn more money? It sounds like "taking into account these variables, and introducing this ridiculous one to allow me to adjust the outcomes as needed."
Pod2 Has Collected All the Exploits for iOS 5.1 Jailbreak
Hi Chris,

Why build an entire new IDE, while you can also integrate your brilliant bright new ideas into an already awesome editor like SublimeText?
Considering the praise he heaps on the EPIC input controller, the website for that product (http://www.mindspring.com/~rrelect/epic/info/teaser.shtml) is, dare I say it, almost epically underwhelming. :| I tried to find out a) what it looks like and b) how much it costs, just out of general interest, and failed on both.
Barney Frank discusses role of government
The cash comes from traders/investors who are impatient. If you want to trade immediately instead of waiting and hoping for someone else to hit your order, you have to pay the spread. Market-makers make money by allowing impatient traders to transact with them, and then holding the inventory until other impatient traders want to buy/sell it.

This requires the market-maker to take a risk. The spread compensates them for the risk. The size of the spread is (currently, with HFT) set by competition between market-makers. Before HFT, there was much less competition between market-makers, and spreads were hence much wider. Back then, this resulted in the transfer of significant wealth from investors to exchange specialists. In modern markets with HFT market-makers instead of specialists, these transaction costs are much lower, which saves you and your pension fund money.

Example:

Suppose the national best bid on stock ABCDE is $15.17 and the best offer is $15.18. The "spread" is $0.01. (These limit orders were almost certainly placed by market-makers using HFT.)

If you want to buy ABCDE, you can do one of two things:
- You can place a limit order to buy at 15.17 and wait and hope that someone sells some to you.
- Alternately, you can place a market order that will cross the spread and buy at 15.18 instantly.

The market order protects you from the roughly 50-50 chance that ABCDE prices start increasing and your order never gets filled. It costs $0.01 per share, which is basically paying the HFT market-maker for liquidity (the ability to trade immediately).

Before HFT, the spread might have been $0.05 or even $0.10. You would still have the same two choices, but instead of $0.01, you would have to pay some human specialist $0.05-0.10+ if you wanted immediacy. His father and grandfather would have also been specialists, and his bonus would have been several million dollars that year. HFT market-makers simply out-competed these parasites. There is no longer a monopoly on market-making, so liquidity has gotten cheaper.

Correspondingly, it is cheaper for you to trade (ditto for mutual funds, pension funds, hedge funds, etc.). This allows you to keep more of your investment profits.
Would anyone happen to know the requirements for simulators built for flight training use? You need quite a few hours on the simulator before you can really get to work on your pilot's license, renting the thing out during work hours to certified flight instructors/schools during the day would be a hell of a side business.
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“Success comes only to those who try” you might have heard it many times and it is true to a large extent, however you need to try really hard to succeed in the online world. In the outer world business acumen would have been enough for you to succeed. You will need a well functioning website to succeed in the online world. While there are many options to try for a good website, it is always suggested to go with Magento development for ecommerce development.
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That's a good point. From my experience in dealing with marketplaces where scammers can earn 10k/scam, they're quite hard to effectively suss out beforehand and block, and they adapt. I can only imagine what the lure of a 100k or or more will draw in terms of creativity. I really hope there's some effective structural or procedural safeguards that we're not aware of, because the obscurity is gone. If they can get past that, I think Kickstarter has a very bright future.
>And that's where, in my experience, JS has a leg up.

I have to disagree with this. Creating a form which displays a list of users and another to edit their details is trivial in, say, .NET's winforms. With [PHP,Python,Whatever]/HTML/JS it's a comparatively painful exercise. No form designer, you have to worry about low level stuff like data binding, the default styling is too basic to be of use. It's a major step backwards, hence people being excited about Meteor (http://www.meteor.com/) - it's finally bringing back the RAD tools that we've been lacking for so long.
I'm at the beginning of my career. I moved to a different country because I couldn't find a job I liked in my own country. I really like programming and I started doing it in my spare time in high school and I still do it in my spare time.

But, I wholeheartedly agree with this article. I need to go home at 5 in order to keep liking programming. Sometimes I go home to program on a pet project or to learn something new in the weekends. Most of the time I try to do that, but life gets in the way. In a good way. My gf wants to go out or I find some new hobby or I want to go running or just stroll around in the beautiful city I live in. I have problems that I want to solve in my life. I think about stuff and read about stuff. I want to learn to build things with my hands, ride a horse, play two musical instruments, paint etc.

I'm not an insect. I don't want to tell people I'm a programmer and have nothing else to talk about (like some of the people I know in this industry). I want to have friends who aren't programmers. In fact I usually appreciate these friends' company a lot more. Because we talk about being human, not about being programmers.

I'm really lucky to have a boss and colleagues who are like this, too. Some of them are really bright people. Most of us have a big number of programming books we've read. Just because I go home early it doesn't mean I'm not passionate about my craft. I am and I constantly invest in getting better, but I hope I'm not doing it at the expense of being a real human being and having meaningful relationships with the people around me.

It's amazing to see the number of counter-arguments to this manifesto on HN after a year ago everyone was praising things like the 4-hour work week and getting more done in less time. Has that failed? Did it instead turn out that we can be productive sitting on a chair for 12 hours a day?

Or maybe the people who really are passionate about programming are just programming right now, because they want to quench their thirst for programming in the 8 hours they have today and then get on with other pursuits. And I should go do that now.
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Sorry, I meant to say "the every-N-seconds auction is not a good idea, even with the itayose method". The reasons are basically the ones traversal mentioned above.
"Ultimately kickstarter is a way of helping things turn into a reality - not a place to shop."

I disagree, I think shopping is exactly what Kickstarter becomes. You can use the platform for a lot of different realities. But, really, I didn't back the pebble watch because I thought the guys were nice, or because I thought the world needed another watch, or another thing to charge at night. I backed it because I like having new shit, I wouldn't of done so if I didn't get something physical from the money. As much as kickstarter is the poormans way to vc projects. VC's want to see something for their money too.

Even if my only reason for backing projects was to see projects become a reality. I'd still be shopping in a way, shopping to find projects I wanted to push into a tangible place. But even at that point, I still think it's the minority.

Donation based projects are more than fine, i'd love to see light table exist. But don't underestimate affordable donations, or fair rewards.
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