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I had to scroll to the bottom of the page to find the small link to preview the templates. Before I sign up for something, I would want a better idea of what it was I was signing up for.

You may want to make the Preview Templates link a little more prominent.
It's actually surprisingly difficult to do if your skills in design aren't that crash hot. That's why templates in Word are so popular around this area.
Soon after the Zynga acquisition I opened the app and it asked me for a new/additional Facebook permission to have access to post on my wall, with no easy way to play my friends anymore if I said no. Could have something to do with it.
Not sure if you are trolling or you really believe that IITs should be producing Nobel laureates. Nobel prizes are given for: Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics and Medicine, not engineering. IITs are engineering institutes - famed largely for their Undergraduate program. IISc has a much better core sciences program than any IIT.
I think more and more people are trying to treat the iPad like a real computer. This seems misguided to me because the existing development tools and systems are rooted in the keyboard and (optional) mouse. Since the touch screen interface on tablets is so different, we really should be working on developing alternative systems that make full use of multitouch capabilities.
In particular longer hair and more elaborate hairstyles become a significant identity and fashion statement in the period. Hats hides that.

Elvis Presleys hairstyle was iconic. He couldn't wear a hat like eg. Frank Sinatra did.
This is quite interesting... but can I suggest you try to sell why you'd want to go Pro? There's a button that says "Go Pro", but there's nothing that explains what extra features I'd get with an upgrade.
One flaw in the car hypothesis is that the car seat to roof distance declined significantly from about the 1920s to the 1950s. Early motorcars had enough headroom for their gentlemen owners to wear their tophats. The change was partly motivated by increased emphasis on streamlining, but if hats were still important, room would still have been provided for them.

I suspect WWII had something to do with it, but I can't figure out how. Certainly pre-war cars had much higher roof-lines than post-war cars.
It's even more different than that — at least those are both companies. This is a hosting company and a dating app. They have about as much in common as General Motors and a hamburger.
PHP is a template language at heart, so it's a little disingenuous to say that it doesn't force you to learn one, as it does - it's like the erb template language part of rails without the controllers and models. That's fine for what it is, but becomes cumbersome if you want to persist data to the db, handle forms for your models, etc at which point you'd often be better served looking at a framework which does a lot of that work for you. Some are available in PHP, but there are IMHO better options in other languages, and of course, better languages.

Do we need to have one language which scales from 'throw together a web page' to complex web apps? Is it even possible or desirable?

While I think it'd be nice to see Python and Ruby have the number of users that PHP does (though perhaps it wouldn't, with scale comes a worse NSR), it's probably not going to happen, simply because they provide a bit more structure, and many people don't want structure. Those people will be happy with PHP (until they're not, and realise they needed that structure after all), and I don't think Ruby or Python frameworks really have any ambition of catering to them. That's fine and is not a failing on either side. For example no one on the ruby side is going to stop using gems as package management because users starting out might be confused, as they are just too useful. You will find plenty of web frameworks for ruby which are simply one gem to install and off you go though - hardly onerous.

It would certainly be possible to write a better PHP, but all the people who might do that are busy using slightly more complex frameworks which make web development easier.
Do technical conferences not have poster sessions?

http://www.writing.engr.psu.edu/posters.html

A staple of scientific conferences and very useful. Perhaps HN types would want a virtual poster wall, but there are advantages to the real paper variety (a chance to pitch to people reading the poster, and, who you therefore know are interested)
I'm imagining a bunch of suits getting together deciding "Time to start working on the next generation of COM... COM2!".

And then the first developer gets ready to write some code, and goes "Explorer->Right click->New folder->COM2".

After a few attempts and some head scratching:

"Uhh.. I think we need another name"
Whenever I've given a talk anywhere (usually barcamps and similar smaller events), the Q&A has always been the most interesting part both for me and the audience.

To the point where my Q&A's usually take up much more time than the talk that sparked them. There was even a time once when the discussion became so interesting we ate up the whole next session as well.

The point of a Q&A, for me, is to really find out what about my topic interests the audience so I can give more relevant information than I could when just delivering a dry talk without the back and forth.

But maybe I have a weird talk style since I usually ask a lot of questions of the audience as well, which primes them to pose better questions later on (or during the talk itself).
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One of the more ridiculous examples I'm aware of is Sparkfun: http://www.sparkfun.com/news/300

In which, some lawyers hilariously try to argue that people might be confused when trying to buy some SPARC hardware, and could end up with a crate full of Arduinos, and the vague nagging feeling that it's going to take more than a beowulf cluster to placate their C*O.
I won't talk for the others but for me the "bad reputation" is not because of missing features, it is because of a wrong handling of ambiguous cases. If you ask a (SQL) question to a database and your question is ill-formed, ambiguous, or meaningless, it is very dangerous for the database engine to try to guess your meaning and answer something.

There are enough troubles with SQL (eg the Null debate) to add up to the mess by adding guesses.
Do you mean don't use defaults that contain mutable values?
That's interesting. But try creating a folder called .NET in Windows explorer... :-) Hint - you can't!
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Depends on how strict your definition of "implies" is.

I think the majority of us agree the title strongly suggests so.
I would add a $2 coin just like the Euro currency.
Can't help you on why it's called .Net but it came very close to being called Microsoft ColdFusion

http://www.sargeway.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=cat&catid=6D...
You just described python cgi scripts
I didn't make that generalization - I was commenting on the sweeping generalization that was made in the movie. I know some very great teachers who do not teach at IITs. My parents are college professors and at least 4 aunts/uncles of mine are also in teaching profession. While I agree that a lot of educational institutes in India suffer from under-qualified or uninspired teaching - I do not believe that it is the core reason of all that is wrong with the education system. My being an IITian actually contributes less to this belief of mine than my school teachers in a small town. It did get reinforced here but I have always had some great teachers.
I was Summer intern at Microsoft in 2001 and back then the interns went to Bill Gates's house for a bbq near the end of the Summer. One of the interns asked "what other names did you think of before coming up with .NET?"

To the best of my memory, Bill's answer was something like:

I didn't actually like the name .NET. It makes people
wonder if we are finally just starting to learn about the
Internet. Sadly, the other proposed name was even worse.
Our mission statement at the time was 'work Anywhere,
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Oh boy.

I seem to remember the

(member 1 '(1 2 3)) -> t
(equal '(1 2) '(1 2)) -> t
(member '(1 2) '('(1 2) '(3 4))) -> nil

bug. It took me just three hours, but boy was it annoying. In the end, it was just me not knowing the language of course.
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The title makes it sounds like the user decline is related to the Zynga acquisition.
Python 2 versus 3 isn't anything like PHP 4 versus 5.

The problem is that there are a few minor but backwards-incompatible changes to the syntax in py3. Libraries can't update until all their dependencies update. And web frameworks are some of the most complex software with the most dependencies, so they're updating last.

It's still pretty much the same language behaving in the same way, though. If you know Python 2 really well, it'll take all of five minutes to get accustomed to Python 3. Just don't worry about it and learn 2 until people stop telling you otherwise. :)
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How about the more simple answer of marketing really iOS is not better than any other system. They just market and managed there environment better. They didn't design a OS they designed a elite culture of people who swear to their brand and by word of mouth spread their ideas.
One of my favorite questions is: "What's the best bug you've ever found?"

One of the problems I always have with questions like that is this: I don't keep mental lists of events or other things ordered by potential "interestingness" to myself or other people. I just don't think that way for some reason.

I might fumble to come up with an answer to that question, and then an hour after the interview is over, I'll remember a really good story the interviewer would have liked, but in the meantime I've looked like an inexperienced, bumbling fool.

Not that it really matters, of course--eventually I'll get through an interview without hitting a question that doesn't work for me, get hired, and then actually get to do some good work for somebody. Getting through that process feels fairly random to me.
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> conditions should be encouraging to instill the passion in students

There are attempts already being made to do this. In past 5 years at IITB I have seen: Student Satellite Project, RaceCar (BAJA) Project, Some very neat summer projects for freshmen, BioFuel project and others. Enthusiastic faculty is now trying on their own time to reach out to students and motivate them. And this was across departments not just CSE or Electrical Engineering.
Marco's point was that he believes that people don't mind 5x jumps, so a $10 meal would be two $5 bills. Regardless of whether you buy into his premise, it's pretty obvious that we should kill the penny.
Is the formatting of the document really that important. I would have thought the employer would be focussing on your qualifications/experience rather than your design skills in MS Word.
Ahh! So I was: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/ERB

Now all we need to do is make this a default .cgi in all apache installations and we're golden.
I really don't think it's worth taking this guy seriously. First he writes a worthless and inaccurate lambast of PHP, and now he's trying to "convert" people to Python by telling us Unicode sucks. Get a life.
Nice! So when they couldn't use a reserved folder name, they went for the next best thing ;)
aleph-null? what the fuck?
They should have just incremented the last letter of COM to create the new version CON.

Explorer->Right click->New folder->CON...

Oh.
Waaayback link to the deleted Stack Overflow Q&A referenced in the article. 2010/08

http://web.archive.org/web/20100812155534/http://stackoverfl...
The £2/€2 coin is becoming more and more useful as prices of basic products (milk, break, soft drinks etc.) rise. Many of those things used to be less than £1/€1 and are now between £1/€1 and £2/€2. I find myself using it a lot.
There is a lot of focus on team work. I'm still not sure if programming is suited for team work. There's clearly some activities of creative problem solving which are better suited for individuals working mostly alone, but belonging to a community of peers.

For example:
* math
* research
* art
* visual design
* writing
* music

* programming?

People have been trying to apply Taylorism to programming making it approach an assembly line in organization. Now we're trying to organize programmers as sports teams instead with Agile.

I just don't understand why programming specifically is under this intense pressure of having to be measurable and quantifiable in every little detail.

It seems like being a good cog in an assembly line, or a good member of a sports team is just as important, if not more, as just creating good programs. Why aren't for example visual designers being hassled in this way? No they are beging left alone as long as they do good stuff. They can freelance or work from home if they want.

But programming is somehow different. There's this assumption that it needs to be done in a group at all times. Solving all problems by group discussion.

If I was hiring I would just ask to see previous project, and/or a portfolio (github for example). If they have nothing to show, or it's really bad and show no signs of progress, I would not hire. Simple as that.

I wouldn't hire a group of 15 clearly sub-standard visual designers who have nothing to show, try to organize them into a group, measure closely and try to make them create visual design.

In the same way I would not try to do this with programmers either.
FizzBuzz is OK for quick filtering, but asking to come up with an efficient substring search algorithm ([1] or similar) on the spot, assuming that one doesn't know this algorithm a priori (and many good programmers don't), for which, scientists like Knuth, Morris and Pratt spent months, is just ridiculous.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth%E2%80%93Morris%E2%80%93Pr...
While interesting, you're conflating .NET with ASP. One is a broad stack for application dev, another is an unrelated technology for web dev.
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Actually I couldn't even find the link even after reading your post. I'm on an iPhone and that might have something to do with it, but still needs to be more visible.
Python3 isn't much different from Python2. It's not like you have to re-learn Python when you switch from 2 to 3.

In a nutshell: print() has become a function instead of a statement. The standard library has been made more consistent. Built-in iterators are lazy by default. The two string types (str and unicode) are properly redefined as 'bytes' and 'strings'.
Compiler bugs are always satisfying to find. "It's never the compiler", but sometimes it is: http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=12419

But I think my best one was when I found a bug in a third party communication library, that only manifested itself on ARM architecture. Our CPU was PPC, and our simulator was x86. On both of those, unaligned memory reads work fine. But the actual unit we'd talk to had an ARM CPU. On ARM it just reads from the closest(?) aligned address. I found that by looking at network logs and reading the source (which we thankfully had).
How about this: Argue the point. Do it passionately or humerously or snarky if it works for you. The problem with the OP is his snarks and sarcasm are disconnected from his technical points. His actual technical point are few and far between, and generally not argued very well at all.
Install eruby binary (example given is ubuntu/apache):

sudo apt-get install ruby libapache2-mod-ruby eruby

Set up your web server to serve it:

AddHandler rubypage .erb .xhtml
Action rubypage /cgi-bin/eruby

Start writing pages like this:

The time is <%= Time.now %>.

The first two steps could be completed by your web host, or done by you once. Obviously you might run into performance issues etc (no idea how well this would work on a live server), but that gets you up and running.

I would point out that most examples you can think of as trivial as that above could just be done with js anyway though, without any dynamic language server-side - the main reason to use a server-side language is to talk to a db or store data, at which point you probably want a framework anyway.

It's already a solved problem really, but people at that level are happy enough on PHP, which for the example above would be almost identical, and for anything more complex a framework is actually useful, and so there's no point in starting this way for many web projects.
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In practice, for MOST developers, the changes between 2 and 3 are minimal. Offhand, print is a function, and there's no distinction between unicode strings and ascii strings anymore. If you do a lot of "low level" networking involving byte strings, you'll notice the difference, because you can't just jump between bytes and strings anymore.

It's this distinction that's delaying a lot of networking related libraries from porting to Python 3 - basically, it's going to be a long, buggy journey. Libraries such as Twisted, have very old codebases - old enough that some of the practices aren't the best, even for Python 2 code. Upgrading it to Python 3 will introduce quite a few breakages.

There's a lot more that I can't think of right now, but I'm sure someone else can cover off other differences.

There's no reason not to learn both - I use Python 3 for a few personal projects, and Python 2 for work.
I'm pretty certain when you migrate from a different database you're supposed to check your schema and data anyway, or do you just "decide" it should work without question?

I'm not saying this MySQL behavior is acceptable, I'm just saying that you should be aware of the limitations and quirks of the tools you work with.
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We'll have to disagree about how well known Pair Networks is. They were one of the first and largest commercial web hosting companies in the world. I can't help think that anyone who doesn't immediately think of them when the name "Pair" hasn't been around very long.

But maybe I'm just being an old fart. It seems to happen increasingly often these days.
Move #2 is really big at the moment. Apple is still able to create market segmentation with it's 3-year old device.

As of last quarter, the top selling smart phones [1]:

1. iPhone 4S

2. iPhone 4

3. iPhone 3GS

4. Samsung GALAXY S II

5. Samsung GALAXY S 4G

[1]: https://www.npd.com/wps/portal/npd/us/news/pressreleases/pr_...
Python 3 is not "really that new" and Python 2.6-2.7 is not "old" in any way.

In fact we have: pre-2.4 (really old, preinstalled on old Redhats), 2.4-2.7, 3.x

Python 3 is curing problem with variable visibility (and if you do not write in "pure" functional way - you will never see this problem) and unicode strings. Other differences is not so "revolutionary".
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This. The day I can get vi bindings made for a touch screen with Dropbox syncing is the day I sell my laptop and buy an iPad.
A lovely project indeed. I'm doing lots of things with it.

Previous discussions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3060414

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2600890

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1644192

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2428723

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2038276

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3672651

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3519038
What we need is a touch-based intuitive-ish interface that does everything vi bindings do.
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I think the reason for this is the principle of the game.. with the time it's boring..
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Haven't applied for many jobs lately, huh?
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Um... where exactly can one get previous iPhone models for $99 or $0? I recently paid EUR 200 for an iPhone 3G (not S) on ebay.

No, plan-subsidized prices do not count.

It may be true and a great idea that Apple does market segmentation by keeping to sell older models, but it is very limited. They're only segmenting the upper end of the market.

Which may eventually bite them when cheap Android phones become affordable to billions of people in the 3rd world.
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Humans don't work that way. It all adds up to your overall impression. The resume will be laying on the table during the interview, and you want it to convey the impression that you're professional, smart, and pay attention to detail.

Conveying the message that you don't care about our decadent society's obsession with superficiality and appearance, or whatever message you convey with an ASCII-only resume, obviously works in some situations. But in general, Postel's Law applies here.