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Regarding the Facebook preference for hiring young people...

The "young" developers today are those who grew up with the sorts of stacks that start-ups today are being built on. The 1.0 release of ROR was late 2005. If you were hacking away at 12 years old in 2005 then you would be 19 today!

Learning the web dev stack is a lot of effort, especially if you throw Linux in with that. Most people generally don't want to put in the time / effort to do new things. That's even more true of people who have families and busy lives.

Also, it's the web dev stack that is bringing down the barriers to entry for starting new businesses. Things like dirt cheap server resources and cloud services are even more recent than Ruby 1.0.

No wonder it's all young people! It's the young people who grew up with this stuff and who don't have to be stuffed into the old molds of work and education. For example, I'm a U.S. citizen working from the Philippines just for a change of scenery. Perhaps I could have been able to do this 10 years ago, but probably not much earlier than that.

This train is moving fast. Quit reading these articles because nobody can predict where we are going. It's getting crazy.
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Really cool Growl theme: BangTidy2
I would be happy if they added high resolution/retina displays on the 13" MBP which I still prefer over the air for the simple reason I can replace the SSD and memory.
This is a good read even if you don't have a dog in the fight - maybe even especially if you don't, because it's easier to evaluate the arguments objectively, and see how they apply to your world.

An observation: JavaScript and Java are arguing over adding complementary features.
Money is not an end, it is the means
I think you touched on the core of the issue here. How much has the market grown on the past 20 years? Quite a lot actually. As the market grows, more people gravitate towards it as a career choice, and they are mostly young people looking for career choices. 20 years from now, those people will be seniors in a highly competitive market where solutions grow in technical complexity day after day.

The only thing certain is that things will have changed by them from what they are currently.
Cool idea. For now we just support one location, but you can make that location whatever you want (home, office, etc.)
although they seem to be charing a VAT rate of 23% http://cl.ly/1g382s2t1P290Y0i2V3S - which I can't see any reference to in the VAT rates guide for the UK http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/vat/forms-rates/rates/rates.htm
Not this again, we already went through this a few weeks ago.

Back then, I thought the conclusion was that there is nothing broken about OS X memory management, and that with every 'fix' you come up with, you will just introduce another degenerate corner case. The same holds for any OS, trade-offs are made that may have some negative effect in some cases, to the benefit of the general cases.

I don't recognize any of his symptoms anyway, and my OS X computers get pretty RAM-heavy use, with almost always a linux VM open, XCode, Safari with ~10 tabs, iTunes with a few thousand songs, etc.

Edit:
Just to be sure I read through some of the links he provides that are supposed to explain what is going on and why the fix would be of any help, but nowhere do I see any hard facts that demonstrate what is going on. Only that he 'saw in vm_stat that OS X was swapping out used memory for unused memory'. I'd like to see some actual evidence supporting this statement.
The truth is, programming is honestly not so hard. It just seems that way to you because it's so easy to convince yourself of that. I want to emphatically remind you that it's not. You have to believe that it's not hard before you can get good at it.

And it doesn't help that programming courses, like much of school, sometimes suck the excitement and imagination right out of you while simultaneously instilling fear.

Forget that, and just start coding. Anything! It really doesn't matter what. The only way to get good it programming is to program a lot. It doesn't matter if what you make is good, well-written, useful to anybody (even yourself), etc. Find something interesting to you for whatever reason, and just start programming--start now and don't stop--and you will become proficient way faster than you realize is possible.
There is a lot of money to made in non profit and charitable organizations. At least for those at the top. Go look up how much your higher ups make in groups like United Way and you will begin to wonder how many people could be helped if so many people didn't make near a half million a year at a charity.
I'm guessing this, like other geofencing activities, is heavy on battery? Does it only trigger once a day (in the morning or whatever) and then stop checking your location?

Maybe I should just download it and try it...
WS.js: SOAP stack for Node.js
Buy a better world. Frankly I agree. The "golden rule" is that you should treat others as you would like to be treated. But then there is a very old joke that "You know what the golden rule is? He who has the gold makes the rules! HAAA!!"

But I think the neo-post-contemporary response to that is: so get some gold and make some better rules.
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Right. I don't think it's a stupid aim to have. All you need to do is make an OS, that is stupidly easy to use... I still see people flounder over windows. I put Salix with a bare amount of apps on an older family member's computer - and I think it's pretty elementary - but they still run into a few issues. I think it's more user friendly though than Windows XP - so that's a plus point.
I should add that this site just started a few months ago and has around 5K pageviews/month. Anyone else using S3 for their static sites? If so, do you recommend AWS CloudFront for this and is it worth the extra pennies?
The Stripe JavaScript will submit your details over HTTPS. To prevent this very concern (the perception that submitted data will not be secured), sites should serve their forms over HTTPS as well.
Doesn't work for me. Irony at it's best.
I wish this worked on iPad ...
What? Ruby existed long before Rails and will continue to exists long after Rails ceases to be the framework de jour.

Real innovation is language independent, and is certainly not defined by using the latest fad framework.
hi kyro, i would love for you to write in more depth why you feel your designs are better than the originals. as an engineer looking to understand design, one subjective sentence isn't really doing it for me.
"A great academic in any field should be articulate in expressing ideas, in at least one language."

The idea that English departments exist primarily to produce skilled writers is a misconception. 'English' as an academic field is the study of English-language literature, and it's as serious and rigorous as any other field in the humanities.
Tapping into Identity and the Inside-Out Enterprise
The extension thing is a valid critique; but the "layer" as you call it is just a main part of their business; remember, they are in the file sharing business and _not_ in the file hosting/CDN business.
Hm, what other conclusion would you draw from this?
I am positive I have had this feature since the beginning and not just in the public folder. What odd though is that I have been the only person at work with it.
Do you mean how to manage the retirement from a financial perspective or in general, how to spend one's retirement?
Does anyone else notice extreme time-based slowdowns using multiple monitors? I've looked through forums and system logs and I can't find an immediate explanation for it. The system tends to hang when using multiple monitors for any extended period of time.
Oracle knows that their full-text search is lacking and have made some recent acquisitions around search. It will be interesting to see how these play out.
Peace out guys - this is awesome for existing SEs (but maybe not good for the economy)
I paid for Photoshop 6, and then CS1 and CS3.

I'll happily pay $29/mo (and even $49/mo) for the Creative Suite. I think that a lot of people under estimate the power of Photoshop and the other applications -- there is no alternative because nothing robustly imports and exports as .psd files. Photoshop especially is an example of a Microsoft Office esque product in that every designer I know uses Photoshop in a subtly different manner, making it nearly impossible for anyone to create a "Photoshop killer." I also secretly love Fireworks, despite it not being updated for about six years.

I have always thought Adobe did a pretty good job at combatting piracy, especially in the more recent CS versions: it really is a lot of work to pirate the applications now.

The applications are total trash to use though if you're anyone other than someone that is not technically sophisticated save for growing up in the Adobe world. (designers, basically.)
A piece of paper and a pen.
Thanks for the feedback.

The headers are meant to look highlighted, rather than like buttons, I really need to think about this. Personally, I thought they looked good, but if it's causing usability issues, then they need updating.

You're right, we have the classic chicken and egg problem, but we're focusing on landlords for now. Love the idea about pre-searching for users. Wouldn't want it to impact page load times though, so perhaps it could be a client side call once the page has loaded. The one issue is that people may not search for properties in their current location - but it's a starting point.
This design gives me the immediate impression that this product is related to health care, something that the current drchrono.com does not do. And it's gorgeous, I think he did a great job with this one.

As far as MU, he claims, "I brought the ‘MU Certification’ badge front and center because I’ve been told that potential health incentives factor heavily in a practice’s or hospital’s decision to adopt a new platform."

So it sounds like it's relevant to actual customers.
"Well, if they’d like to bust my chops for an article that’s about 15 months old, they’re welcome to do so (or at least try)."

Well, I guess they did. :-/
Hmm, it isn't clear if you're not-so-subtly putting him down. I find such clear writing to be refreshing. Not a whole lot of people saying these things.

I, for one, found the line about "no enemies at all" to ring too true.
This may seem like another one of those trite responses you mentioned, but I would second the notion that "you can do anything you put your mind to" and that you should keep up the program, or at least keep learning CS on your own. If you look to put degree notches on your belt and list languages you know on your resume, you're looking at things the wrong way. Build things! Get excited about what you can build--anything! The more CS you know, the faster you can learn more. If you want to be inspired by some of the applications out there for your talents, try taking one of the awesome free courses at Udacity (or Coursera) and add Python to your list of known languages while you're at it. You can do them at your own pace (I would lump together 3 or 4 classes and just muscle through them when I had a free weekend) and learn from some of the smartest teachers out there.

Even in an elite university, programming isn't something that's taught to you. You teach it to yourself by doing and digging. What university can do is give some structure to what material you get through and ensure a higher level understanding of some of the concepts (and it's probably a better environment for learning the math and statistics that are useful for any computer scientist).

Anyway, don't defeat yourself and don't underestimate how critical this knowledge will be in 10, 15, 25 years when the world will be a whole new place filled with much much more software. The human mind is incredibly plastic and with the proper enthusiasm can be melded to serve nearly any purpose :)
Yeah, I actually learnt scraping from Asheesh :) He's awesome.
I really enjoy your designs, Kyro. But, I would really like to see a side-by-side comparison of before and after. I think that will be really helpful in illustrating the design choices you make during the facelift.
Even more so than free healthcare, the one thing that separates the US from the "rest of the world" is the availability of free higher education. Of course, the caveat is that most of the rest of the world is far more restrictive of who may attend university.

In the past, this was always touted as an advantage of the US system. Sure, you have to pay for college, but you don't have to stress over a placement exam that will determine your fate at an early age. Anyone with the motivation can get a higher education.

Except, that's not how things have turned out. It seems that attaining a college degree has become an obligation in the US, for no good reason. People like to talk about the ever increasing proportion of the population that hold college degrees, but does anyone ever ask if the fraction of students with college degrees matches the fraction of available jobs that require college degrees?

Instead, the US seems to have a death-grip on the notion that "more college graduates = more better jobs". So, instead of scaling back college acceptance rates and spending limited funds to provide an excellent education to a few, the US will water down college education until its as filling as the beer its college students will spend most of their 4 years drinking, only to emerge with a degree in underwater basket weaving.
Really impressive!! Looks like it's done entirely in HTML/CSS/Coffeescript.

I have to admit surprise that they would put so much effort into something that is not their product, though.
Any idea if that's everywhere, or only here in the US with our record of being completely useless about prosecuting anti-competitiveness?
Besides abstract reasoning, the most important skill for a software engineer is the ability to learn quickly.

I'm not sure the OP understands that fact.
Wallpaper - “Don’t Ignore Your Dreams…”
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> Eventually most people will get sick, or have a sick kid or family member.

Thanks to cheap state health insurance I don't have to pay most of such expenses out of my pocket.

> Or be victims of crime.

This is actually much worse when you are rich. At least in my country. Rich seal themselves in closed enclaves out of fear for their property.

> Or need to make repairs

If you own thing that you can't afford to repair or replace and can't manage without, you are doing it wrong.

> suffer a natural disaster

I'm not sure about this one. It's easier to get away from some natural disasters when you can buy your place on any mode of transportation but you have to leave so much more behind you. It could make you more hesitant to leave.

> Or be involved in a dispute with neighbors or the local government.

It might be easier to buy your way out but having money makes you a target for your neighbours and for the government.

But we went from "money == freedom" to "future will bite you so better stack up a pile"
Dean Potter walks a 130-foot slackline without a harness or net
Yep. ElasticSearch is actually quite slow, as text engines go. It seems designed to scale, rather than provide single-machine performance.

Even so we are seeing very slow queries on our 8-node cluster, even for relatively simple queries and small datasets. It seems very sensitive to the result set size (ie., the maximum item number set in the query). A limit of 50 might take 500ms (which is slow but acceptable in our case) whereas 1000 results might take 3-4 seconds. The indexes are all in OS cache so disk performance is not the bottleneck.
I agree the education system is completly broken more so for comp sci than anywhere. There is no need for 4 years of school. Why do you need bio and comunication. Before anyone say that grammer and english help you in a career look back at your college career did you honestly take those classes seriously. I have comp sci course I've past and haven't retain one word.
UX vs. UI Infographic as Cereal
With "exists" I meant obviously "is popular because" or "the main use case of Ruby is Rails"—I think you get the point.

I disagree on your second point, languages drive innovation otherwise C/C++ would be sufficient for all of us. Anyway, let's not start a flamewar on languages, I like Rails using it myself.
But that's maybe not the best example; wasn't it originally just him? I think GNU+Linux might better demonstrate what you're trying to say.
IEEE publication of Virtuoso, a Hybrid RDBMS/Graph Column Store
The Economist had a very good column on this subject a little while ago:

> In living memory, some middle-class Britons would not allow delivery boys to come to their front door; the tradesmen’s entrance was at the side. [....] And their modern descendants, the middle-class intelligentsia who populate the continent’s universities and staff its public sector, have a tendency to despise the businesspeople who generate the wealth needed to fund their way of living. There is great distaste at the idea that political choices should be dictated by “the markets”; investors should just hand over their money and not ask whether it will be paid back.

http://www.economist.com/node/21541857
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I loved your previous redesigns but I felt this one wasn't quite there.

I had never been to DrChrono's website and didn't know much about them before this post - so your design was my first interaction with them. For the first minute of looking at your design I couldn't figure out:

-what the offering is

-what the value proposition is

I also found the headline "Efficient patient care at your finger tips" to be quite bland. In terms of design I found the page too busy and I initially didn't know where to focus. In my opinion this page is a long way from being as good as your redesign of Flutter.
Everywhere, doubt if anyone has ever bothered to challenge them on the issue. If you can afford Oracle, why blog about your benchmarks?
Quantum decision affects results of measurements taken earlier in time
My University basically taught The Art of Computer Programming. I remember one C++ class (an elective), one assembly class (required, I think), and the rest was just math. That stuff never goes out of style (not that I remember any of it...). I think I'd be much worse off if I was just taught the latest hotness. Node.js 101!
I noticed that too, maybe because he is expecting non-hackers to view it? Or was unaware of font-face?
>The fact that they gave up $1B proves Facebook (specifically Zuckerberg) thought they'll get something more valuable to them than that $1B.

My guess is that the "something more valuable to them" is protecting their $100 billion valuation. It all makes perfect sense if you are prepared to suspend reality and accept that $100 billion is what Facebook is worth.
I created this for the UChicago hackathon this past weekend. I made it because I needed it for myself, and I wanted to make something useful that did not require users to sign up for another account. Hopefully other people find it useful too.
I don't know a lot about web design. Can someone explain to me how my browser rendered that page with the new Averiá font, even though I don't have this font installed? Can web pages include an external font library or something?
Microsoft comes to Facebook's aid with 550 patents
How a Few Popular Android Apps Could Get a 4.0 UI Refresh & Keep Their Branding
New HTC One X Review
I'd imagine that many HN readers intend to use money from an exit to fund their life after "retirement".
No actual data, barely any technical discussion at all, mention of "the garbage collection algorithm" which most likely isn't even being used by most of the apps running, capped by a total cargo-cult solution... and this is #1 on the front page?
Reliability is not necessary. "Good enough" to sell ads- that's all they need.
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I find there are three types of people who will try to make you feel guilty about wanting money. The first are people who have chosen non-lucrative careers and will want you to feel that your work is shallow. The second are people who have an invested interest in paying workers lower wages in order to make their money. The third are people who are young, in school and not yet working full time and paying bills.

Living your life based on money is probably not the way to find happiness. But it's good to know the motivations of people who would judge you for wanting money.
13 Quad-Core Intel Ivy Bridge Chips Expected
Why is that? It's a pretty good comparison, especially for low price digital items.
I've been using it for the last few weeks and it's really not bad. Eager to hear your experience with it — jake [at] news.me
While I applaud the effort, this seems like a very short-sighted project. Design is not about how things look, it's about how things work to advance a set of goals. And it's very difficult to know how things work without research and exploration. Any new design would start with reviewing stats, business goals and the competition. Projects that don't do that should more-aptly be called "re-colouring" or "moving things around to be pretty."

Incidentally, there was a designer who did a "redesign" of the American Airlines site a while back and ignited a fire store. The response from one of AA's designers is worth a read: http://www.dustincurtis.com/dear_dustin_curtis.html
I don't know how to say this without being offensive, but your entire comment is evidence that people should be taking those courses seriously. You may be an extremely competent programmer, but when I see the spelling mistakes and inability to communicate effectively, I would be hard-pressed to take you seriously in any way.
You are right. I took a quick read before posting and he said they increased his VPS at liquidweb to "handle the load". I wonder if there is another issue or it's just the game they play with the VPS where you are still subject to someone else on the same box stealing the cpu.
From a financial perspective, in general.

I've come to realize in researching the issue that there are several options and in asking this question I am hoping to get a sense for popular strategies.

I am uncertain how it is possible to retire at all at this point (even though I've still got a few decades if I'm lucky).
Isn't this similar though? You could argue "Well, only a couple of % of Gmail users at best will use the service. Google will be just fine in the big picture". I'm actually impressed that several people objected to removing an ad-supported revenue stream.
I've experienced exactly the same thing that was described in this article. All the way though to installing more ram and disabling the dynamic pager (this is a late 2011 mbp).

Like the author I was shocked at how accustomed I was to waiting for an app to become responsive again. I was trained to wait on the OS to do it's business before I could do my work. Now things happen as quickly as I can think to do them, this is how computing should be.
EULAs are only valid in some jurisdictions.

Of course, even if one lives in a jurisdiction where they're not, it would take some guts to stand up to Oracle's lawyers. And to convince your ISP, your government, etc. to stand up to Oracle's lawyers.
That language is OMeta. There are several implementations; the latest JavaScript compiler is just a few hundred lines. http://www.tinlizzie.org/ometa/

The compiler is self-hosting; much of that JS code is actually compiled from OMeta source. For another example, the Common Lisp version includes fewer than 200 lines of OMeta source and fewer than 300 lines of Lisp source.

OMeta was a very eye-opening language for me because of the great expressiveness it gets from its simple but novel approach. (I've written code in Haskell, Prolog, Scheme, OCaml, and plenty of other languages, but OMeta is not like any of them.) If you are interesting in programming languages and/or parsing, Warth's thesis is a great read.