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Hmm, I humbly admit I was ignorant with the terminology. Obviously I am not deep in the culture you speak of. I am sorry that I pushed my opinion under your comment. These thoughts have been building from other situations. I should have seen this coming.

Maybe I "do not understand in the least". I personally still feel what I said has some merit and was not hard to see that I meant to inspire positivity more so then to come across as judgmental. I think you and me both know I was not bullying you to be something you all are not. I say "all" because you spoke of "we". If you are justified in saying "we" and can't relate/respect what I am saying, then I don't think I want to be part of your circle.
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The first thing I noticed that none of the positions were asking for degrees in Computer Science. All math and physics. Before its time I guess.
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The great thing about having no real definition ('HTML5' is beyond meaningless at this point as a name for real, actual technology) is that it means you can theoretically use it to do anything at all!
Private industry is ultimately disciplined by a marketplace. It can take a while, but managements seeking goals other than returns ultimately lead their companies into losses. The companies either improve or are bankrupted and their assets transferred to more capable managements.

U.S. auto companies are an edifying exception.
Transactor can be bottleneck and serves a relatively simple task. So I guessed it would be rewritten in other fast language such as C/C++ rather than Clojure as the project mature. But now the database functions and JVM are tightly-coupled. What do you think?
I think the main hazard is fire, isn't it? Both the RCD and the earth connection are to stop humans from being electrocuted if they are touching the circuit while it shorts.

I don't know enough about the characteristics of a charger exploding but I'd say the RCD may not be fast enough to prevent the explosion, and that's assuming the explosion is due to shorting to begin with.

The 'uncle' post of your one had some good advice http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3904523
There are small parts of this comment that I could nitpick, but overall, it really resonates with me.

I've been thinking a lot about how the internet can influence politics in a democratic society more directly. I suspect that there are enough people online organized around various communities to have a measurable impact, but the way voting and candidacy systems are a) not online, and b) tied to geography make it difficult to move into the real world.

Additionally I feel that attention spans on most internet communities is so short that backing something like a real movement or political change isn't really possible. In fact, most of the people I've met who actually care and are willing to make real changes also explicitly reject the internet due to perceived shallowness. They may be right or wrong, but I think the reality is that we have to convince people like that to care, because they're the ones that power movements.
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It is not what human beings are

It seems about 30% of all internet traffic disagrees with you. Yes, that's bigger than youtube.

but its effect on society and its subjugation of half of said society far outweigh those few technological insights.

Then our society is doomed!

Or perhaps it's just you being a little prude?
virtualbox.org is down as well.
What I hope is that another mobile OS eat Android on its left: even more open, even less linked to big corps. This OS would be to Android what Linux is to Unix.
Wikipedia says the first CS degree in the US was at Purdue in 1962. (And the first internationally was at Cambridge in 1953.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science
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Love the pencil. Nice period touch.
Key thing is to ensure you understand the equity in terms of its percentage of company. Ie not just how many shares, but also how many shares are outstanding. I have seem lots of very talented engineers make this mistake.
Those strategic innovations seem to have forestalled WWIII, so I don't know that I would be quite that disrespectful.
it sounds messy.
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No, they get paid once the project reaches its goal and the time runs out. There's no guarantee that your money is going towards a project that gets finished.
How much of your paycheck do you save? Apple can afford to wait until the government passes a Homeland Investment Act type law to avoid paying those taxes. OTOH, most people need to pay for things like food, clothes, whatever they're using to post comments on websites, etc.
I don't know about this particular series of comments, but I second him on the idea that often some comments on HN smell like "If I troll harder I'm gonna look cooler". It somewhat degrades the overall quality IMO.
The sheer size and complexity of government in the US has reached the point of effective opacity. It's no longer possible to really assess what the government is doing, or what the costs of those activities are. The political class has every incentive to enhance this opacity. Their poor understanding of economics and management -- they are neither selected for nor disciplined on these skills -- only add to the confusion.

At this point all we really _know_ about the government's activities is that they are overpriced, under-effective, and understated in their size.

There is no rational discussion of government's role until these conditions are resolved.
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Try emigrating from China to the USA. Its not inertia. There are many millions of people who would gladly move to another country given the opportunity.
They're probably busy switching everything over to an Oracle stack...
As a best practice applications should reference dtds from local filesystem. Most sane data centers would have outbound (App->Internet) access locked down - only needed hosts/ports are allowed after the application developer specifically requests for it.
I haven't used Xfce in a long time either. Lately I've been an Openbox/tint2 kind of guy.

I remember my first days of Linux. It was Debian testing with a lightweight Xfce desktop.
thx, learned something today.
I actually agree with your first part, and as I said, its an increasing trend, not necessarily the most popular. But that still worries me.

But I disagree when you say women deciding to be dominated. I don't see how one can decide to be dominated. If we follow this argument that we can say that men and women in a China factory decided to work 16 hours a day, conveying the idea that there is nothing wrong with it.
this was my initial reaction too, but it seems as though this PEP doesn't expose any new information, just makes existing variables cleaner to access.
For virtualbox.org it's planned maintenance from April 27th to April 30th. The announcement was on the main page.
By far the biggest movement in porn since the internet is 'amateur'.

That's because the internet has stripped profits away. It's like reality shows being the trend in television because expensive productions don't have as much profit margin as they used to.

My view of porn is essentially what Naomi Wolfe's was in 2003: http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/trends/n_9437/

The only thing I'd add is that as we become more saturated in stimulation, it takes more extremes to get the dopamine hit. This goes for porn or anything else he mentions in his article.
Yeah. It's a bit worrisome that it's buried in one of the "magicest" packages in emacs (Alex Ott's configuration seems to be the most common Necronomicon to access CEDET :| ), but I'm hoping the branch convergence along with features like these start making config tutorials more widespread.
Such disasters could happen, and minimizing their frequency is an important engineering problem. But you have a long road to hoe if you want to argue that the average quality of private management isn't much better than the average quality of public governance.
But don't worry, CircuitLab has been very popular with all the 6.002 people in IRC! The MITx interface is not without its share of bugs.
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What about Watson ?

IBM is still one of only very few companies doing truly interesting research.
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Don't worry jmspring, Belphegor[1] may be slumbering, but he is alive and well.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belphegor
The military is a tool. Like any tool, it can be used for bad things, and it can be used for good things. Without having a military, we would be up shit's creek.

I think you should be more thankful of and respectful towards the people "in the trenches," and also the technologists, who make it possible for you to live in a safe place and spend your time according to your desires.
Sounds like a plan. Now all you have to do is convince the Chinese to adopt the same laws.
Art absolutely, positively does not have to be 'something that an everyman wants to buy'. Art can quite happily exist with an audience of one. It also most certainly does not have to be beautiful - 'confrontational' art frequently violates this idea.
You know, it's not as if this money has escaped being taxed. At most, it's escaped one layer. It'll be taxed if they use it to pay someone. It'll be taxed when that someone uses it to pay for something else. If they move any of it somewhere else, it'll be taxed, if it becomes someone's capital gains it'll be taxed. If they use it to buy something, that purchase will be taxed, as will the thing they purchased at pretty much every layer. If it does pretty much anything other than sit there, it'll be taxed, and the next people to get it will have their use of the money taxed too. It isn't money that has magically been freed of taxation, it's just money that isn't being taxed this exact second.
" If you’re a vegetarian… Well, you’re shit out of luck. "

Ya, I'll just skip this rant of his and wait for the full length film of this article.

Its funny how the author is using a medium in which he describes as fading to convey his distaste in another medium which "everyone" is using. But, expects us to use the fading medium to understand his "vegetarian" ideas.

Yes, this article was THAT confusing.
Seriously Graphite has to be the ugliest, clunkiest yet most useful piece of software ever.
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Notice that some things haven't changed at all: "We're solving tough problems!"
>(The only situation that does is not having internet or TV)

There are plenty of other ways to consume porn beyond this (magazines, books, theaters, consuming internet/TV via other people.)
Correlation does not imply causation.

A "startup" is a company in search of a successful business model. Those that fail will leave behind a record of many failed explorations, making it look as thought this was the "cause" of their failure. Perhaps they just failed to find their successful business model. Perhaps it was never there. That said, I do agree with the author. Focus is key.
>I don't see how one can decide to be dominated.

Read up on "dominance and submission" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominance_and_submission).
Art is whatever the janitor decides not to to throw in the trashcan

By this definition, porn is probably the only art :/
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Likewise, for my linux systems. My only gripe is that XFCE has gotten much more heavy weight than when I first started working with it.

Right now, I am mostly on OSX and for some things, Win7. However, when I get back to Linux, I might try and find a lighter weight GUI.
Brain chemistry most likely plays some type of role, but if you are not in a position to quantify and explain to what degree and under what circumstance in a given situation, phrases like that lend themselves to lazy, armchair-scientist type sentiment that do nothing to raise the level of conversation.
Thanks a lot for your feedback. I truly appreciate it.

Nothing can beat psql in speed in my opinion. pgXplorer carries the overhead of a GUI of course and there is an added level of abstraction when talking to the database. pgXplorer has been built with ease-of-use in mind.

> ..you're asking for "Port" twice...

Sorry about it. It has been rectified at the source. I shall be updating the installers shortly.

> what's the proposition? Why use pgXplorer instead of pgAdmin, for example?

Good question. I started with the premise to supplant pgAdmin as the open source GUI tool for postgres. But I don't hold that view anymore. I am thinking of pgXplorer as another open source GUI for postgres.

There are several design choices that are different from pgAdmin (and possibly other database GUI tools).

* First of all, we have one instance of pgXplorer handling only one database at a time. So in the unpalatable event that pgXplorer crashes, it brings down only that instance. While one could launch multiple pgAdmins as well, it lists all connections regardless.

* A 2-D grid like layout for tables,views and function on the main canvas with search option to quickly highlight a desired item. Very useful when dealing with names in Unicode, where there can be no perceptible alphabetical order (like Japanese).

* The SQL editor/console is fully Unicode ready. In pgAdmin, when doing a search/replace with Unicode characters, pgAdmin's editor does not work well.

* Editing tables and inserting data in tables handled in a better way than pgAdmin I think. Bulk updates can be done in pgXplorer when a single column is selected.

* Copying and pasting data into LibreOffice Calc/Excel with headers. Also, it is quicker than pgAdmin.

* A simple table designer for newly created (columnless) tables.

These are some salient features of pgXplorer. More features are on the anvil.
Planned downtime is handled like this? It isn't hard to put up a temporary page. Just taking it down, even with notice is really poor form.
"The low interest in of women in programming is a global phenomenon."
Huh. Source?
according to this: http://www.frauen.inf.ethz.ch/stats/international_stat_fraue...
"there is a wide range in participation
in computing by women.... it is difficult to do
a direct comparison between countries. ... participation is between 10% and 40% in most countries and courses, with a wide spread in this range. There are some countries
and courses where women's participation is below 10%,
some with participation above 40%, and a few where women
are in the majority."
( I believe in Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand, women are in the majority )
Stuff, as in, why people watch porn and what it means.

I'm not criticizing you in any way for not watching it. Doesn't matter to me. I just think it's really odd to drop "I'm in a very healthy relationship" into this conversation, as if that fact by itself means you don't consume porn.
As someone who can code well but has never taken a formal data structures/algorithms course, I have so far assumed that I wouldn't be able to pass a Google interview which, from what I've heard, tend to be pretty algorithm-focused. (Once I get around to taking an algorithms course, this will change, of course.) Do you think I'm wrong in that assumption?
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plug.dj just released a new version with localized user interfaces in Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese and English.

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German, French and Korean are being rolled out in the next few days too.
(I assume that "what." is a request for an explanation.)

A float can store an exact integer of up to 53 bits even on a 32 bit machine.

PHP only has signed ints. If you need to store an unsigned int you can either store it internally as signed and only convert it to unsigned with printf() when you output it (and deal with the complexity of comparisons), or use a float and limit yourself to 53 bits.

If you have a 64 bit machine then of course you can easily fit an unsigned 32 bit int in that range. But it's wise not to rely on that at least for another few years.

In short, if you need more than 32 signed bits of range, and you want to make sure your code will run on any machine, then use a float. If you know you only use 64 bit machines then you have more flexibility. (You can use PHP_INT_SIZE and PHP_INT_MAX to check.)

If you need even more range than that then use the built in GMP library.

Also, PHP will automatically convert numbers that are too large from ints to float, so normally you don't see any of this. It's only if you use settype() to force an int that you have to pay attention to this.
I hope Watson survives, but based on what I've heard out of Almaden over the years, I'm skeptical.
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IBM is still one of only very few companies doing truly interesting research.

Can you qualify that? Almost every big technology company and thousands of small ones have teams of smart people conducting interesting research across many fields. Take a look at any issue of Wired or Technology Review (or the top links to HN on any given day) to see some examples.
You can also get a bed from somewhere cheaper - all these places deliver. I don't remember how much I paid, but I'm pretty confident it was <$200.
Programmers need far less education now than they did then, on the other hand.
Apparently the NZ police refiled the paperwork using the proper procedures.
I like the t-shirt and the bag too. You can clearly see it hasn't been screenprinted. It's been done in Photoshop.
I'm on a mid 2010 Macbook Pro using Chrome 20 (dev) and it runs perfectly smooth with no lag and no noticeable spike in CPU usage.
Thanks a ton for the kind words Mike.

> but a little sad a Linux version doesn't exist yet

Working fervently on this. Couple of issues being sorted out now are: a) undesirable window behaviour and 2) packaging for popular linux flavours.

>...I didn't have any databases sitting around to test it against.

Unfortunately, the easiest way I can think of is to install postgres on your own machine. As a very very low priority item on your schedule, if you can try out pgXplorer on your local database and give some feedback, I would really appreciate it!
I think the early, mid 90's were a lot more interesting time to be a programmer than now, just before the Internet explosion. Back then, a bigger percentage of the focus was on using computers to do something, solve a problem directly (as opposed to implicitly) and the computers were actually getting powerful enough to do things on a cheap basis.

People's cat pictures were a vanishingly small portion of the landscape.

As an example, cheap computing power is one of the reasons that while at the beginning of the 90's, nuclear power was considered a money losing proposition by electric utilities and everyone was trying to get out from under them but by the end of the decade, all the utilities were hanging on to their nukes for dear life and trying to figure out how to extend their licenses/service life.

Now, a much bigger percentage of the focus is simply getting information out of one spot, tranporting it to another, dolling it up w/some marketing glitz.

That's not to say that the cool stuff isn't still going on, but that it is a smaller percentage and the profession has been dumbed down significantly (hence brogrammers and all).
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Another reason why I'm not a fan of these corporate campuses made to look like amusement parks. I don't like the idea of my office becoming a place to hang out, eat, and take naps. There's something depressing to me about the idea of a company basically saying, "Here, look how awesome we made this place for you. Now you have no real reason to leave work." If long hours are expected, then pay should be commensurate. Investment bankers' lives suck, but at least they get paid huge salaries. I may be alone on this, but "perks" are not enough to motivate me to work longer hours than I agreed to.

That said, I have not worked for Google, and I tend to believe that this article is not very representative of what day-to-day life really looks like.
I was under the impression that the refiling didn't take place until after the seizure?

Regardless, I hope that the copyright extremists realize that although megaupload is gone piracy continues.
I agree with your sentiment, but it's plain ignorance to believe that those "war simulations" or any other software developed by the military is always intended to raise the kill count and not prevent casualties. To make my point, I would bet the invention of C made the military more effective in some fashion or other, but that's only a consequence of solving the more basic problems C was intended to address. I think it's hard to argue that the problems IBM was solving, or those that the military solves, are really any different in that respect. They solve one problem and then the solution can and will be adapted for other purposes, and it's often hard to judge whether that's a net good or not.
It's not the disasters we should really be concerned about, it's the normal bigcorp experience. People are promoted based on office politics and taking credit for others' work. Big useless projects to raise a manager's profile happen all the time. Consultants are hired to produce reports that say exactly what the company, or part of the company, wants them to say to cover people's asses. Market leads and shareholder value are squandered by corporations unable to adjust to changing business or consumer climates.

Plenty of people on this site quit their bigcorp jobs because they couldn't stand the wastefulness and the politics. Every time HR is brought up, HN seethes hate at their uselessness. Middle management, that most corporate of jobs, is almost universally derided.

Much better? I'd doubt it, but neither of us has data and personally I'm not sure how that would even be quantified.
I probably should have said "important" instead of "interesting".

How many of those companies are doing research that can be compared to what came out of Bell Labs in the 60's and 70's - the transistor, the laser, ... ?

IBM's work on advanced semiconductors and Watson certainly qualify. The later will probably be seen as one of the most important developments in the history of humanity and it wouldn't have been possible without the former.
This being the top comment, I'm assuming it got upvoted the most, but nobody chimed in verbal agreement.

I'm posting from a 2007 Compaq 8510p with Windows XP, and having the browser bog down as if I've been hacked has been the sharpest reminder of late I need to upgrade.
I would argue that what we perceive to be a slow down of innovation is actually the stark contrast to what we witnessed during the post-war and cold war period. That was an unusually amazing period of technological achievement largely driven by an arms race and idealogical competition between two super powers.
I mean almost any city in better than NYC. Nice article but it sucks that you're now living with such a low std of living.