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"It is DI, adapters for vendor-specific libraries and utility. It's probably not the easiest thing to start with just because it is so flexible that it can be hard to know where to start. A good "Hello World" Spring MVC 3.1 app would go a long way."

Spring is OK in the service and DAO layers. I prefer Stripes on the web layer. Stripes IMO has a far more sensible approach to laying out the web layer (e.g. combining controller and backing object, fewer configurations, more sensible tag system, etc.).

http://stripesframework.org/display/stripes/Home
Yes, but not for the reasons being brought up in the snide replies to your post. As with data plans, there are two types of people that snatch up unlimited deals: A.) Those who want to use a service at whatever pace meets their needs and not worry about running up the meter, and B.) Those who fly 16 round-trips to London in a 25-day span.
I dig what you are saying but after some reflection decided I would rather see kv args. Here is a gist to accomplish that: https://gist.github.com/2625081 (wish there was simple way to introspect a fn and get its arg names, but saying that a lot of underscore functions have dynamic arities so this only makes sense for specific functions anyway)

$(window).scroll _.throttleKV
func: -> console.log "This print's at most every 500ms"
wait: 500

Nice thing about that is you don't have to rememeber arg order (though you do have to remember the kv names). In coffee though you have less commas, feels nearly smalltalkish.
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Disney just won a lot of respect by me (and probably by millions of others); the awesomeness of this is staggering.
They make it sound like a new development, but this has been the Chronicle of Higher Education's bread-and-butter topic for a long time.

I somehow got on their mailing list during grad school, and I've received regular updates about the supposed oppression of the worlds PhD's and graduate students ever since.
I think the problem is more complicated than basic supply and demand. There is a lot of demand for college education. Enrollment is higher than it has ever been, and the people profiled in this article have jobs. The problem is that in order to cut cost colleges are hiring more and more adjunct professors as opposed to full-time, tenure track professors. It's not uncommon for these adjunct professors to take on jobs at multiple community colleges in order to make enough. The end result is that they are doing as much or more work than a full time professor but for less pay.
The author gives the game away at the end of his post. That is he's been predicting the demise of Zynga for years. So really the fact that the stock price has dropped gives the author some belief that they were correct.

Id imagine the drop in price is linked to the FB IPO. Not sure if anyone remembered when FB announced their plans, anything in that space increased.
I was actually more freaked out by the fact that the company withheld flights and, essentially, blackmailed the customer into saying he payed for the ticket. I would have sued.
I don't think mobile and social games/apps are clear-cut examples of economies of scale. Accessibility to the cloud and scalable computing resources isn't exclusive to large companies but it may indeed be somewhat cheaper according to size. But even if it is cheaper, it doesn't automatically make mobile and social games more competitive according to the size of their creator's resources. Most economies of scale apply to segments where competitors are all selling equivalent products and can only compete on price or in markets that require extremely expensive infrastructures (billions). Most of the mobile and social games market is defined by small shops climbing to the top of the charts for a short lived but huge shot of revenue. Honestly the whole mobile and social app market strikes me as the furthest thing from an economy of scale IMHO.
Ms. Bruninga-Matteau does not blame Yavapai College for her situation but rather the "systematic defunding of higher education."

In fact, it is the systematic overfunding of higher education that has led this person to getting a degree that is worthless.

Plus her own poor choices, of course.
Note that it's actually a symbol from the legend, not the base of the exponent. The base of all the exponents is 10.
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A hyphen would be useful here: “CoffeeScript-friendly argument order”.
Had VM server boot off SSD, god damn it was fast! VMs were loving it. Then the server froze, I was away couldn't fix it locally. System runs trading bots. Day with SP trading in 30 point range is wasted, plus the next day.

System just doesn' boot. Using HDDs now again, just storing scratch data in the SSD. Brought in 2 FC cages of 14 drives each. Lots of io/sec.
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Medieval History, English, & Film Studies. I shouldn't throw stones, because my chosen discipline of Political Theory is not exactly a bustling field. But: what did they think they were getting into? Education for the sake of education is fine, but it is incredibly difficult to take care of a family when you completely ignore economics.

Study what you love, sure, but don't expect that it will lead you to financial success.
By funding a university research department?
Which SSD did you buy?

I'd only trust an Intel at this point, though even they're not much more reliable than a traditional hard drive on average (now that they've shipped a few buggy firmware revisions).
elbows on the table.
I'd love to get into doing this on the side, but 99% of QA jobs I've seen require solid knowledge of programming. Is this not the case?
Thanks very much. I will look into it.
I guess I should have specified "where f is a file handle":

f = File.open("foo", "r")
f.read

f = File.open("foo", "w+")
f.write(x)
It's not a good idea for an MLC drive, but a decent SSD should fail into read only mode when enough sectors are lost.
It is still over supplied. If it weren't then colleges would be forced to hire tenure track professors to fill the positions since there wouldn't be enough people to teach.
These calculations of the airlines "losses" on these pass holders strikes me as similar to the software industry's claims of billions of losses due to piracy, counting all pirated copies as lost revenue, even if the pirate would have never purchased the software in a perfect world.

Did they realize that if these guys are taking up what would have otherwise been an empty first class seat that it really costs the airline almost nothing (just the increase in jet fuel costs due to their weight and anything they might eat)? It's not like there were special flights just for these guys, they are scheduled flights.

I know folks that work as baggage handlers for just a few hours a week so they can buy $5 unsold tickets anywhere they want. This program is not that different from what they offer their employees, except for the first class designation.
The lesson here is not that lifetime-for-fixed-up-front is inherently idiotic but that it must be sensibly discounted. AA discounting at the anomalous 1981 rates is akin to American public pensions assuming the stock markets will throw 8% at them ad infinitum.

An example of a lifetime-for-fixed-cost product that works is the annuity. Even British consols, perpetuities which pay out forever, are seen as a smart financing method (zero roll-over risk) because they were sensibly priced.
Great job. Direct to the point, easy to use, allows me to download as PDF...

I had an idea for a site exactly like this except I couldn't have executed it as well and I gave up after I saw these: http://startupstats.com/resume-builder-startups-2012-03/

I regret that decision now that I've tried yours.
It uses official rate of inflation to calculate: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=350000+usd+in+1981+wort...
> How many of them have a significant number of people who are monolingual? To put it another way, how many languages do I need to know to talk to 95% of Europeans?

You would be surprised. Half the people in France speak only French (and maybe one local dialect). And it is far from being the worst country. So with English, French, German and maybe Russian you would maybe get close to 80% but far away from 95%

By "newspaper are the same" I meant that you have national newspaper that one can find everywhere. I didn't travel a lot in USA, but I remember that USA today was available everywhere I went to (mainly west coast I admit) I doubt it is the only newspaper in that case. Science, National Geographic are two publication that I believe must be nation wide. There is no EU-wide publication.

By "same political parties", I mean that you know which is rep and which is dem. Which one will support your current president and which won't. Arguably, we begin to have a similar structure appearing in EU. It is recent and still approximate, but EU MPs now try to share some labels.
That statement couldn't possibly be more wrong.

The majority of games are created by large teams of highly talented and well paid individuals. There are certain types of games that could be created by a single college sophomore or a teeny tiny team. Most games can not. A team size of 20 is considered quite small.

Both your statement and the link's author's is incredibly wrong and incredibly insulting.
a related formalism is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity, the idea that the shortest possible program defines the complexity of the problem. Thoughts:

- you might not have seen enough cases be able to characterise the true problem, e.g. in some situation a constraint exists, but you've only seen one instance of that situation

- reusing standardized components can enable you to solve the problem more quickly (even though one-size-fits-all doesn't really fit)

- Kolmogorov complexity doesn't account for efficiency, space nor time, only that the eventual answer is correct. Efficiency often requires ugly hacks
I agree, lets make a pull request to... after a little research looks like there is no language regulator for English (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_language_regulators) :/
He's referring specifically to social games which, as a category, are generally much less transparent about their addictive gameplay mechanisms and extrinsic reward.
I am a statistician and I buy lottery tickets
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Hiring a Rails 'gangsta' .. Is this what its coming to?
I'd speculate that YC is perfectly happy to see startups succeed, even if they weren't one of the teams that they selected. I'm skeptical they give much thought to rejecting anyone.

I'm always happy to see people succeed, especially people I fired at one point. The beautiful thing about our field is that it isn't a zero sum game.

EDIT: none of the successful people I know spend time on regret
That's what immediately jumped out at me. Which is sort of funny, because the majority of people on Medicaid are white, IIRC.

I attribute it to, on the reporter's part, two parts laziness to one part subconscious racism.
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Yeah, and many more:
http://www.disneyresearch.com/labs/index.htm
Check out http://www.seobook.com/ and http://www.seo-theory.com/
Casa Sanchez on 24th St in the Mission (SF) offered lifetime burritos to anyone who would get their logo tattooed on their body. IIRC, it was an attention-getting stunt that they didn't expect anyone to take them up on. But a lot of drug addicts happily did and they had to discontinue the offer. This was in the late 90s. I wonder if anyone still gets free burritos on that basis.
> Python and Ruby both don't have that.

Python and Ruby have first class functions, garbage collection, dynamic typing, and many other advanced dynamic features, so there is definitely a similarity between them and Lisp. However, the fact that they don't have code as a first class object is definitely a major limitation. In Lisp essentially everything is first class and manipulable at run time.
Why would colleges want to hire tenure-track professors if adjuncts can teach the same number of students for less money?

The full-time vs. adjunct debate has nothing to do with whether college is over- or under-supplied. It's a problem with how colleges supply whatever it is that they supply.
Okay, re-reading the bug reports, from here and other places, it involves mounting an AFP-mounted home directory. So an average user mount wouldn't log to syslog, but if your home directory was set for a remote mount, or a loopback afs mount, it would be. I'd need a lion box to properly test on; I'd given up on OS X a few years back because I got tired of Apple's idea of Just Fucking Works.
Yeah! I have to agree, plug.dj is really amazing. Even more, I love how they listen to the community for their opinion on future updates.
I wish my Ubuntu desktop booted in 40 seconds. Thanks to btrfs, a reboot is a 30-minute affair.
> What the hell is that part about kids and breakfast?! "Could be used to monitor and train kinds to use the right implements to eat breakfast". That is just messed up.

Messed up? You're just looking at what it's doing, not how it can be applied. The ability to monitor a child with special needs with this sort of application is pretty amazing. Suddenly, this information can be transmitted and used to assist with therapy. Knowing how often a child uses a spoon/fork rather than his hands due to real data rather than parents recalling is powerful.

It also provides powerful feedback. A system setup to remind them child if they stop using their fork/spoon by showing a picture to remind them. This is already used in training. Unfortunately, it can't be automated. Tools like this would allow for that, and the potential is staggering. We are clearly years away, but this has the great potential to really help people.
Our entire perspective on existence is based on where we popped up on the cosmological timeline. If we'd come along earlier, we may not have been able to perceive the expansion of the universe, and the apparent disconnect between the hard limit of the speed of light, and the size of the universe. If we'd come along later, we may have figured that we were completely alone in a static sphere, with no observable matter outside our galaxy.

I also find it fascinating that if we had come along a few thousand years earlier or later, our entire history would have been completely different. How effective would we have been as travelers if the north start didn't exist for us as guidepost in the northern hemisphere? So much of our existence is based on lucky chance.
That's an interesting reaction, and someone else said "This would be great were I a stalker."

It comes as a surprise to me though -- all of these photos are already public. Do people not expect this degree of discoverability with Instagram? Do you think FB will consider this potentially sensitive angle post-acquisition?
I understand the "song of the day" concept. I'm a musician (trumpeter), so often classical or jazz distracts me too much. Instrumental rock and/or electronic music seems to work well. I've actually found one specific instrumental track that has been my go to track for years - The Brazilian by the band Genesis. When I'm focused and coding, I can listen to that track for days on end.

I have often wondered why it seems to help so much, but I am not going to complain.
If you watched fox news for a few weeks, you'd be forgiven for thinking that approximately 99% of medicaid went to black people, and that those expenses are responsible for the majority of the budget deficit.

I suspect that the reporter's channeling the media environment as "what most people believe", which would make the subjects' whiteness somewhat novel.
Don't go to college
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The problem with this is that people are self sorting. Only the people who intend to fly a lot will buy this. The airline loses money because there is a disparity of information. You know in general how much you will fly, whereas the airline only knows averages. This is very similar to Bill Clinton's Pay off college loans with percentage of 20 years' income program. That didn't work because people had general idea's about their future career path. So, a future government worker may elect to use it, whereas a future investment banker will not.
>> getting bonuses in English class for using long passage of flowery words

That depends on who your teacher is. My teacher taught that good english should be understood by as many people as possible while retaining all of its meaning. The goal of English is to communicate.

He was a good teacher because the top 65% of our class got into the top 35% of the state for English, while our school was below average in just about every other subject.
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It's not that they would be disappointed that the team succeeded, it's that they would be disappointed they didn't invest in them.
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Oversupplied compared to what? Just because there's no immediate industrial benefit to medieval studies doesn't mean that there's no overall societal benefit from liberal arts programs.

If you took a strict Econ 101 view of this, there would be no medieval studies professors in the whole country.
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Find it priceless this guy talks about knowing that the company was going down in flames but didn't sell short at all on the stock.
When I was in physics grad school, some 20 years ago, I was paid $11K/year. As a single male with no dependents, living in a room which cost $200/month, and walking distance from classes and work, it was quite doable. Others, married and/or with children, had it more complicated. Some students did get welfare. The plan was that after graduation we would have access to much better paying jobs. But some of my friends, PhD trained in chemistry or physics, still found it difficult to find a job in their chosen profession. Many ended up with postdoc positions, making more than the adjunct professors mentioned here, but still with little money and little job security.

One may say they have "zero pity for highly educated people who do not understand the basics of supply and demand in their chosen job market" - and bear in mind that I'm talking here about people trained in the sciences, and not humanities which is oft smirked at for its dearth of job prospects. But the thing is, we as people get to decide what failure means. We don't need to let one bad choice prove ruinously disastrous.

As jseliger's link points out, I, as a 21 year old who outside of a few summer jobs had never been outside of the academic environment, really did not understand the job market and options available to me, so made my decision on rather limited information. I hadn't even realized, for example, that graduate schools paid TA salaries. I thought I would have to apply for scholarships like I did for my undergraduate education.

It worked out well for me, but it also felt like a lot of chance was involved. Lady Luck could easily given a worse roll. I do not see my success as purely my own achievement. I do not want my failures to be my own cross to bear, and nor would I wish that on others.

Yes, I believe in funding a strong social safety net.
Currently it's download only due to the fact that PDF's take a decent amount of time to render.
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that's a really good idea actually. Maybe the video container format could add that metadata support.
What's wrong with google reader? It works fine for me.
Searching for TootTweet or any combination of the words won't yield the same results as searching for FizzBuzz, not until Google crawls this post.

Only then, a test with the words "Toot" "Tweet" will be burned forever for the fakers advantage :)

Not searching for the question or not being able to parse it logically into a program is far more aggravating to me.

There are a lot of people who do this, but there are also many recruiters who are good in their jobs by spotting this self-deluded cockiness.

What amazes me is how far someone can go by in life, asserting their supposed skills, while not being able to parse a simple question related to their profession.

Have any of you HN'ers seen this in other professions?
Meaning, have you ever seen someone claim to be a carpenter but having no idea how to cut a piece of wood or use the right nail?

Or you think this can be attributed to someone trying to scam gullible persons into paying in advance for a website that will never be created?

Anyway, I give the guy the benefit of the doubt because I don't know how much time has passed since OP's last e-mail.
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Very pretty! How long have you been building this? and what tools did you use? I'm working on my first web app now too!
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All drives can fail. Not including servers I've managed I estimate I've had more than 10 hard drives fail, all of which were well below the manufacturer's stated MTBF.

My first SSD (low to mid range) failed within the first 3-6 months but the replacement has been going for almost 2 years now.
You misread what he said. He misses named arguments, not typed ones.
There is also a limit on the amount applicable to the cashback bonus, per program, and it's usually a trivial amount like $300 (so, $15 cash back per month).
Agreed, till you hit a problem that requires 10,000+ lines of code. I love Python to bits but for this one large website I am working on I wish it was written in C# Java or some other statically typed language.

When you have a large project I will always take the compile time checking that tends to resolve a lot of bugs over unit tests to verify the same thing. Especially when it comes to large re-factoring efforts.
"4. Life memberships are silly. If they want to attract the business flyers they were talking about it should be an annual charge."

I'm not sure an annual charge would necessarily fix the situation for heavy users. It's very similar to the situation of cable and phone companies losing money on heavy users of their service.
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This article is tailor made for a lot of Nelson Muntz-ish "HAHA"s.

1) Gloating over your own skills being in demand can be short-sighted. How many of the people here were thinking, "wow, I'm really passionate about medieval history, but I'll go into software development because that's where the big bucks are?" I'd hazard to say none: people choose to do what they enjoy, not what will make them money. Just because your passion happened to line up with today's market discipline doesn't mean that anyone whose passions aren't in that same direction are fools. (And do you really want a bunch of people who have no innate skills in programming flocking to IT and CS in the hopes of cashing out?)

2) That said, I'm not massively sympathetic toward her. Lots of people don't have the ability to easily cease living off food stamps: she could find a job to catapult her into the middle class in a matter of months. It's a choice on her end. Though, it's not even clear that it's a poor choice, since she gets to do what she loves and has enough money plus entitlements for food, shelter, and medical care.

3) But to tease out some points even further... most people are more interested in pissing on her choices than in figuring out how they can use her situation to better the world. Wait, (ostensibly) great teachers in obscure topics are out there in abundance working only a couple hours a week? Shouldn't we be spending more time wondering "Is there an opportunity here?" than wondering if her choices make her education worthless or if she deserves our pity or not?
The title is misleading. There is no indication such a limit exists.